Celebrity:Prince Harry
Prince Harry is no stranger to the hate and cruelty that social media breeds. Ever since he and his wife, Meghan Markle, began their relationship they’ve been on the receiving end of it. The 36-Year old Duke of Sussex opened up to Fast Company in an interview about how he blames social media for the Capitol riots that took place on January 6th and is calling for social media reform.
“…Online platforms have contributed to and stoked the conditions for a crisis of hate, a crisis of health, and a crisis of truth…along with millions of others who see and feel what this era has done at every level — we are losing loved ones to conspiracy theories, losing a sense of self because of the barrage of mistruths, and at the largest scale, losing our democracies,” Harry said.
Harry went on to discuss his belief that everyone has been affected by the current climate of the digital space, whether as an individual witnessing their loved ones being radicalized, or as a collective, experiencing the denial of the climate crisis. But he doesn’t believe it’s a political issue, to him it’s a humanitarian issue.
When asked why this is important to him he explained that when the media took his and his wife’s story and created their own narrative, it became the breeding ground for the bullying and attacks they received, stating that if they had told their story truthfully, none of that would’ve happened.
“We have to believe in optimism because that’s the world and the humanity I want for my son, and all of us,” Harry added.
