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Prince Harry: America’s free speech protection is ‘bonkers’

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Much has been written here in the UK about Prince Harry’s Thursday appearance on Hollywood actor Dax Shepard’s ‘Armchair Expert’ podcast. The Duke of Sussex’s comments about the ‘genetic pain and suffering’ of growing up as a royal made the front page of Friday’s tabloids with the Daily Mail asking ‘Just how low can Harry go?’ after he appeared to criticise the parenting of his own father Prince Charles. 

Less attention though was paid to other comments made by the exiled royal in his interview. In March Harry was given a role at international nonprofit the Aspen Institute, where he serves on the Orwell-esque ‘Commission on Information Disorder’ working on a six-month study on how inaccurate information spreads across the country.

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