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Andrew Neil takes brutal dig at Prince Harry over new ‘misinformation’ job

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The new group is due to begin meeting in April with the task of combatting “misinformation”. Other commission members include former US congressman Will Hurd, Russian opposition activist Garry Kasparov and Kathryn Murdoch, daughter-in-law of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.

Ms Murdoch is married to James Murdoch who worked as CEO of 21st Century Fox between 2015 and 2019.

In a statement announcing his new role Harry said: “The experience of today’s digital world has inundated us with an avalanche of misinformation, affecting our ability as individuals as well as societies to think clearly and truly understand the world we live in.

“It is my belief that this is a humanitarian issue and as such, it demands a multi-stakeholder response from advocacy groups, members of the media, academic researchers, and both government and civil society leaders.”

Mr Neil, chair of GB News, responded a report about Harry’s bid to “tackle misinformation in the media” on Twitter.

He joked: “Maybe he’ll start with a recent Oprah Winfrey interview…”

The tweet received over 4,300 likes and was retweeted 700 times.

Earlier this month CBS broadcast an incendiary interview of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex by Oprah Winfrey.

Meghan claimed there were “concerns and conversations” about Archie’s skin tone within the Royal Family prior to his birth.

However both she and Harry refused to name the family member responsible.

Later CBS, which first aired the interview in the US, came under fire after it emerged some of the headlines use to attack British media weren’t from the UK.

During the Oprah interview a number of headlines were shown to highlight the apparent negativity of British newspapers.

However Associated Newspapers, which owns the Daily Mail, complained to CBS arguing some of these were subject to “deliberate distortion and doctoring”, while others were not even from British press at all.

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An ITV spokesman told the Daily Telegraph the broadcaster removed a number of headlines from the package before its UK broadcast.

The Commission on Information Disorder provides a brief introduction to its work on the official Aspen Institute website.

It reads: “State and non-state actors are undermining trust and sowing discord in civil society and modern democratic institutions by spreading, or encouraging the sharing of, false information across traditional and non-traditional media platforms.

“Government, industry, academia, and the public sector are struggling to understand the roles and responsibilities for countering malicious or otherwise harmful activities.

“The Commission on Information Disorder aims to identify and prioritise the most critical sources and causes of information disorder and deliver a set of short-term actions and longer-term goals to help government, the private sector, and civil society respond to this modern-day crisis of faith in key institutions.”

Harry and Meghan stepped down as senior members of the Royal Family in March 2020.

They subsequently moved to California, Meghan’s home state, shortly before it went into coronavirus lockdown.

Currently the couple live in a £11.2 million mansion in Santa Barbara, to the north of Los Angeles.

This week Harry also announced he is starting work as chief impact officer for BetterUp, a company that provides mental health support.

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