There is hardly a topic that worries Prince Harry as much as false reports on the Internet and the damage they cause. No wonder, he has had bitter experiences himself.
Montecito – The Duke of Sussex is one of 15 commissioners who commissioned the Aspen Institute in Washington DC to conduct a six-month study of the digital “avalanche of misinformation”. Prince Harry (37) recently presented the result on the Archewell website.
The team has created a “list of 15 specific recommendations for those responsible in the public, private and non-profit sectors,” reveals 24royal.de. *
In the report, Prince Harry * and his colleagues call for, among other things, “more transparency and disclosure in social media” and “ideas to stop the collapse of local journalism and the erosion of trustworthy media”.
Other points in the report include phrases such as “improving citizens’ dialogue” and “resisting the imbalance of information power”, as well as “accountability for“ super-disseminators ”of online lies”. This is neither neutral nor factually formulated.
Neither is what drives him. This is also reflected in his statements at the wired online event, to which Prince Harry was invited to speak on the subject of the “Internet lying machine” *. There, the father of two children showed how seriously he takes misinformation and media manipulation. You can feel it involuntarily: For him this is something personal *.
“I learned very early on that the incentives for publishing don’t necessarily match the incentives for the truth,” Harry said. “They [the UK press] have successfully turned fact-based news into opinion-based gossip – with devastating results,” he added. * 24royal.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
