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Britain’s Prince Harry said he warned Twitter CEO ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that the social media site was being used for political unrest in the U.S. capital.
Harry made the comments on Tuesday while he was participating in an online panel on misinformation in California.
He said he made his concerns known via email to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey a day before the riot.
“Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January 6 where I warned him that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged,” Harry said at the at the RE:WIRED tech forum. “That email was sent the day before and then it happened and I haven’t heard from him since.”
Social media sites have come under criticism for not doing enough to stop the spread of misinformation and inciteful content, and the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump is often referred to as an example of the effect of allowing hate to linger.
Big tech in general has been accused of putting growth and profits ahead of public safety.
Harry accused other social media sites like Facebook of misleading “billions of people” with misinformation about COVID-19 and climate change.
He also took a swipe on YouTube, saying many videos spreading COVID-19 misinformation were left up despite violating the site’s own policies.
“And worse, they came to the users via the recommendation tool within YouTube’s own algorithm versus anything that the user was actually searching for,″ he said. “It shows really that it can be stopped but also they didn’t want to stop it because it affects their bottom line.”
The Britain Prince was listed as the co-founder of his nonprofit organization Archewell at the tech forum.
Earlier this year he joined the U.S. think tank the Aspen Institute as a commissioner looking into misinformation and disinformation in the media.
Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, announced in early 2020 that they were quitting royal duties and moving to North America, citing what they said were the unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media.
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