Prince Harry said he emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, warning him the platform was “allowing a coup to be staged.”
The Duke of Sussex blamed social media for fostering misinformation, which he called a “global humanitarian crisis” that contributed to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Jack and I were emailing each other prior to [Jan. 6] where I warned him that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged,” Prince Harry said at a virtual tech conference panel on Tuesday. “That email was sent the day before, and then it happened, and I haven’t heard from him since.”
A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on Prince Harry’s claims.
“This problem did not originate on social media, and you do not need to be online to be affected,” Prince Harry said of misinformation.
The British royal also slammed “hate speech” directed at himself and his wife Meghan Markle on Twitter, blasting the “misogynistic” term “Megxit” used to refer to Markle’s departure from the royal family.
“I lost my mother to this self-manufactured rapidness,” he said of the media. “I’m determined not to lose the mother of my children to the same thing.”
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Speaking at the panel titled “The Internet Lie Machine” at tech magazine WIRED’s virtual conference, Prince Harry was depicted as “a global leader who is taking on misinformation in pursuit of a new era of truth.”
Since stepping down from royal duties in January 2020, Markle and Prince Harry have championed several social causes, with the couple making explosive claims of racism in the royal family during an interview with Oprah Winfrey in Marc. They later created an organization, Archewell Inc., to “unleash the power of compassion to drive systemic cultural change.”
