Prince Harry is against a social media ban for children.
The Duke of Sussex — who shares five-year-old Archie and three-year-old daughter Lilibet with his wife Meghan — has now declared barring youngsters from platforms such as X and Instagram is a bad idea as it could spark family arguments and bullying by classmates.
He told The New York Times’ columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin at the newspaper’s DealBook Summit he thought companies should instead be subjected to more rigorous rules over being transparent and accountable in relation to their policies over children’s use of their social media offerings.
Harry declared posting online had been “intentionally” engineered to be “addictive”, saying banning or axing it “creates all sort of problems”.
He said: “I try to think at these things through the lens as a dad. It’s not a coincidence that the world has become more volatile and more divided since social …