RE:WIRED 2021: Prince Harry on Misinformation as a Global Humanitarian Crisis
Released on 11/09/2021
Misinformation is a global humanitarian crisis.
As you quite rightly pointed out,
I felt it personally over the years
and I'm now watching it happen globally,
affecting everyone, not just America,
literally everyone around the world.
I guess the scariest part about it
is you don't need to be online to be affected by this.
I think Renee mentioned this as well.
It's important to recognize this problem,
it did not originate on social media
and you do not need to be online to be affected, as I said.
I learned from a very early age
that the incentives of publishing
are not necessarily aligned with the incentives of truth.
You know, my experience, I guess,
has being more pre-social media around the UK press
who sadly conflate profit with purpose
and news with entertainment
and they don't report the news, they create it.
And they've successfully tying fact-based news
into opinion-based gossip
with devastating consequences for the country.
So I know the story all too well.
I lost my mother to this self-manufactured rabidness.
And obviously I'm determined
not to lose the mother to my children to the same thing.
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