Britain’s Prince Harry mentioned he warned the chief government of Twitter forward of the January 6 Capitol riots that the social media web site was getting used to stage political unrest within the US capital.

Prince Harry made the feedback Tuesday whereas he was collaborating in an internet panel on misinformation in California. He mentioned he made his issues identified through e-mail to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey the day earlier than 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,” Prince Harry mentioned on the RE:WIRED tech discussion board. “That email was sent the day before and then it happened and I haven’t heard from him since.”

Social media websites have come underneath hearth for not doing sufficient to halt the unfold of misinformation and inciteful content material, with the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump only one instance. Big tech usually has been accused of placing development and earnings forward of public security.

Prince Harry additionally accused different social media websites like Facebook of deceptive “billions of people” with COVID and local weather change misinformation. He additionally focused YouTube, saying many movies spreading COVID misinformation had been left up regardless of violating the location’s personal insurance 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.”

Prince 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.

Meghan, a former star of the American TV legal drama “Suits,” married Prince Harry, a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, at Windsor Castle in May 2018.