British broadcaster and former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan has called out over a speech he made in New York City this week concerning online safety for children.

Harry undertook a three-day visit to the city from September 22 to 24, where he attended several charity and philanthropic events connected with the General Assembly High-Level Week and Climate Week.

On Tuesday, the prince made an appearance summit, during which he took to the stage to discuss the newly launched Archewell Foundation Parent’s Network which seeks to help inform and support parents as their children navigate online spaces.

The network was launched with parents of children who tragically ended their own lives after suffering from the harmful effects of social media.

During his talk, Harry called on tech companies to do more to protect society’s vulnerable youth population.

“While we embolden both youth and parents, we must also hold digital platforms accountable,” he said. “Surely none of us want to live in a world where there is no consequence or accountability.”

In response to footage from Harry’s speech shared to X (formerly Twitter) by The Associated Press, of social media on young people to the effects that the prince has had on the royal family in the years since his split from the monarchy in 2020.

“Does he have any advice for how the can be protected from the harmful effects of people abusing them in books, docs, podcasts and TV interviews with Oprah?” he wrote.

Regalrumination.com approached representatives of Harry via email for comment.

Morgan has about Harry and in recent years—in print, on television, and on social media. Many of these have defended the royal family from criticism voiced by the couple since their move to the U.S.

In 2019, Harry launched a lawsuit alleging unlawful information gathering against Mirror Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mirror title of which Morgan was editor from 1995 to 2004.

The prince alleged that a between 1996 and 2011 were sourced illegally, and his case went to Britain’s High Court in 2023.

In a witness statement to the High Court, signed in February 2023, Harry accused Morgan of speaking critically of him in the media as a form of retaliation for bringing the lawsuit.

“Unfortunately, as a consequence of me bringing my Mirror Group claim, both myself and my wife have been subjected to a barrage of horrific personal attacks and intimidation from Piers Morgan, who was the editor of the Daily Mirror between 1995 and 2004, presumably in retaliation and in the hope that I will back down, before being able to hold him properly accountable for his unlawful activity towards both me and my mother during his editorship,” he said.

Morgan denies having ordered or been party to the unlawful information gathering technique of phone hacking during his time at the Mirror.

He was not called as a witness in the Mirror Group Newspapers High Court proceedings.

In December 2023, a judge, awarding him £140,600 ($188,100) in damages. Though did not accept all the stories out of a representative sample were the product of unlawful activity.

Mirror Group Newspapers settled the rest of Harry’s claim out of court in February 2024.

In response to the judge’s ruling, Morgan issued a press statement from his London home once again denying having engaged in or commissioned phone hacking, and taking aim at Harry.

“Prince Harry’s outrage at media intrusion into the private lives of the royal family is only matched by his own ruthless, greedy and hypocritical enthusiasm for doing it himself,” he said.

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