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Prince Harry claimed Tuesday that he warned Jack Dorsey on January 5 about Twitter being used to stage a coup.
Harry sounded off during the RE: WIRED conference about the toxicity of social media. He talked about the term “Megxit” and said it clearly had misogynistic origins “created by a troll.”
At one point, when asked if he’s ever spoken to Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg, Prince Harry said, “Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January the 6th, where I warned him that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged.”
“That email was sent the day before, and then it happened, and I haven’t heard from him since.”
He talked about the media industry more generally (briefly referencing Succession) and said, “The truth is paywalled but the lies are free.”
“When a lie spreads on social media, it’s dangerous. Of course it is. But when that same lie is given credibility by journalists or publishers,