Well that didn’t take long. Less than two weeks after re-joining Instagram, Meghan Markle and her husband Harry have launched a withering attack on the social media network’s parent company Meta for abandoning its fact checking program. In a statement on their website, Sussex.com, which was immediately ridiculed in some quarters as pompous and inappropriately political for titled British royals, Meghan and Harry urged “those enabling Meta’s profits” to lobby the company to change course, but did not mention Meghan’s own return to the platform to promote her now-postponed cooking show, which is likely to have driven millions of page views alone. The note said Meta’s move “directly undermines free speech” and accused the company of having no “integrity” and being “deeply deceptive.” In the extraordinary diatribe, Meghan and Harry accused Meta of “allowing either ego or profit, likely both, to guide decisions that affect billions.” Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation responded to the message by saying: “Why are Harry and Meghan engaging in U.S. political issues, such as censorship by social media companies, while holding the royal titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex?”
Read it at Sussex.com
