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Meghan Markle branded hypocrite after speech about online harms in Geneva (Image: Getty)
Meghan Markle has been branded a “hypocrite” after sharing a post calling for more action to protect children online. Princess Lilibet on Instagram. Internet celebrity Samara Gill has said there was “massive hypocrisy” in response to the Duchess of Sussex’s online safety speech in Geneva. She shares her daughter’s photo days ago.
Gill said: “It’s tone-deaf. It’s not good to do that when you’re trying to lecture kids about keeping them off social media, being really harsh on tech companies, and then going and doing the exact opposite.”
ITV News’ Royal Editor Chris Ship said he generally took issue with parents who posted pictures of their children online but covered their faces with emojis to protect their privacy, as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have done before.
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Meghan Markle posts photo featuring Princess Lilibet days before trip to Geneva (Image: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram)
he told The Sun Royal Special podcast: “Pick a lane. Ya [don’t] Put your kids on social media or don’t, but it’s your choice as a parent if you do. It’s not your child’s choice to go on social media.”
Ship suggested that when children become adults, they can turn to their parents or guardians and ask why they posted their images without their permission. He added: “It’s a really tough choice for parents.”
Meghan posted Lilibet’s selfie on May 16. This selfie showed the Duchess in a room full of clothes and the princess at her feet with her back to the camera.
The photo was accompanied by a short caption that read: “Mommy’s little helper” and included a violet heart emoji.
Before this post, Meghan shared another photo. Prince Archie to mark it seventh birthday On May 6.
The Duchess wished her “sweet child” Archie a happy birthday by sharing a printed photo of her son being held by Prince Harry as a baby.
Meghan Markle says kids are being exposed to harmful social media content they’re not looking for (Image: Getty)
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Ten days later he was in Switzerland Urging global health leaders to take action to keep children safe online.
Speaking at a memorial in Geneva for people who have died after being harmed digitally, Meghan described children’s online safety as a “public health issue”.
The Duchess made the statement at the opening of the Missing Screen Memorial on Sunday, attended by World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“Today’s children are being shaped by systems designed to capture attention at all costs: relentless algorithms, exploitative engagement and endless exposure to harmful content they are not looking for,” he told global health leaders, ministers and families affected by online harm.
Meghan added that new technologies such as artificial intelligence are not only repeating past mistakes but accelerating and amplifying them, and the danger is now spreading globally.
He said: “We are seeing new forms of harm emerging faster than our systems are prepared to respond, affecting children at alarming scales and across borders.
“But these consequences are not inevitable, and prevention starts with a simple principle: Children should be safe by design, not by chance.
“Because danger now travels globally—instantaneously, invisibly, up close. And our guards must do the same.”
He called on participants to raise their voices and demand better from the platforms that shape children’s lives.
