Prince Harry says he warned Jack Dorsey about Twitter being used to plan Jan. 6 riot

Prince Harry apparently warned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that his platform was getting used to stage a coup forward of the lethal Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot, the Duke of Sussex stated on Tuesday throughout a panel on the Re:Wired convention.

Through the session, Prince Harry first addressed a few of the risks of social media, calling misinformation a “international humanitarian disaster,” including, “You do not must be on-line to be affected by this.” He additionally stated, “In a single single family, you may have three or 4 variations of actuality in relation to reality and reality.”

Wired Editor at Massive Steven Levy, who moderated the dialogue, requested Prince Harry if he’d ever had the prospect to share his social media qualms with tech CEOs like Dorsey or Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. 

“Jack and I had been emailing one another previous to Jan. 6, the place I warned him that his platform was permitting a coup to be staged,” Prince Harry stated. “That electronic mail was despatched the day earlier than, after which it occurred, and I have never heard from him since.”

Twitter declined to touch upon Prince Harry’s statements.

Through the riot earlier this yr, a mob stormed the US Capitol following unfounded claims from then-President Donald Trump on social media that the 2020 election was stolen. Five people died and many more were injured in consequence. Social networks, together with Twitter and Fb, got here underneath fireplace as individuals called on the companies to suspend Trump’s accounts, which they eventually did. 

In August, a congressional committee investigating the riot asked a number of tech companies, together with Facebook, Twitter and Google, to supply data “associated to the unfold of misinformation, efforts to overturn the 2020 election or forestall the certification of the outcomes, home violent extremism, and international affect within the 2020 election.”