Finally, Prince Harry, the millionaire Duke of Sussex, is getting to work.
The self-exiled prince is joining the Aspen Institute's Commission on Information Disorder as a commissioner, the Institute announced on Monday. He's joining 14 other commissioners and three co-chairs — journalist Katie Couric, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson, and former director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Chris Krebs. The group will help conduct a six-month study on the state of misinformation and disinformation in the U.S., according to CNN.
"Powered by algorithms and shared ideologies, people often get affirmation instead of information, where facts are manipulated if not completely ignored," Couric said in a statement about the new commission. "This 'truth decay' is a tremendous threat, not only to a well informed electorate, but to democracy itself." Read more...
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