Britain’s Prince Harry said he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the January 6 Capitol riots that the social media site was being used to spark political unrest in the US capital.
Prince Harry The remarks came on Tuesday when he was participating in an online panel on misinformation in California. He said he conveyed his concerns via email Twitter CEO jack dorsey The day before the riots.
“Jack and I were emailing each other before January 6th, where I warned him that his platform was allowing a coup,” Prince Harry said in the RE: Wired tech forum. “That email was sent a day ago and then it happened and I haven’t heard from him since then.”
Social media sites have come under criticism for not doing enough to stop the spread of misinformation and inflammatory content, with supporters attacking the US Capitol. Donald Trump just one example. big technology It has generally been accused of putting growth and profits ahead of public safety.
Prince Harry has also used other social media sites such as . also accused Facebook To mislead “billions of people” with covid and climate change misinformation. they also targeted youtube, saying that despite violating the site’s own policies, several videos spreading COVID misinformation were left out.
“And even worse, they came to users through the recommendation tool within YouTube’s own algorithm, which is exactly what the user was looking for,” he said. “It really shows it can be stopped but they didn’t want to stop it because it affects their bottom line.”
Prince Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, announced in early 2020 that they were leaving royal duties and moving to North America in what they said were unbearable intrusions and racist behavior from the British media.
Meghan, a former star of the American TV legal drama “Suits,” married Prince Harry, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, at Windsor Castle in May 2018.
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