The Duke of Sussex has claimed that just a day before the tragic rioting at the Capitol, he informed the CEO of Twitter about a coup being plotted on the site.

“Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January 6 when I warned him his platform was allowing a coup to be staged,” the Duke of Sussex stated on a virtual panel for the RE:WIRED conference on Tuesday.

“That email was sent the day before it happened, and I haven’t heard from him since,” he said.

Before a rally in Washington, DC on the day of the rioting on January 6, Donald Trump tweeted charges of vote fraud. In an attempt to overturn the election outcome, members of the Proud Boy movement, a rightwing militia, stormed the Capitol to disrupt the formal certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the White House contest.

Prince Harry spoke at a discussion about whether social media is contributing to misinformation and online intolerance.

The role of Twitter and other social media sites, such as Facebook, in facilitating the assault, which resulted in the deaths of five people, is currently being probed.

Harry chastised Twitter and Facebook for enabling disinformation to proliferate on their platforms, saying that the scope of the problem is frightening and that no one is immune. He claims it is destroying lives and families.

“I learned from a very early age that the incentives of publishing are not necessarily aligned with the incentives of truth,” he said, adding that the British press conflates profit with purpose and news with entertainment.

He added: “I know this story all too well. I lost my mother to this self-manufactured rabidness and obviously I’m determined not to lose the mother of my children to the same thing.”

Harry stated that his family will not use social media “until things change,” but he believes this can happen. “We’ve been led to believe that this challenge is too big to fix or is too big to solve,” he said. “What I’ve learned over the last six months, as part of the Aspen commission, is that simply isn’t true.”

He said the internet was “being defined by hate, division and lies”, adding: “That can’t be right.”

“Especially for anyone who has children, we’re allowing this future to be defined by the very here and now. By exactly that which is greed and profit and growth.”

He referenced an independent analysis that revealed that less than 50 accounts are responsible for more than 70% of the hate speech directed against his wife Meghan, and that British media engage and magnify what he called “hate and lies.”

He further claimed that the term “Megxit,” which was coined by the British press to describe the couple’s decision to step down as royals, was misogynistic.

The term, according to Harry, is an example of internet and media hostility. “Maybe people know this and maybe they don’t, but the term ‘Megxit’ was or is a misogynistic term, and it was created by a troll, amplified by royal correspondents, and it grew and grew and grew into mainstream media. But it began with a troll,” he explained. He didn’t go into detail.

After stepping down as a senior member of the Royal Family with his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, last year, the 37-year-old relocated to the United States.