Oh good Hazza has ended the week by publishing an essay about social media reform for Fast Company...
Why is this topic so important to you? How was your outlook affected by the well-documented online harassment you and your wife have faced in the U.K.?
PH: I was really surprised to witness how my story had been told one way, my wife’s story had been told one way, and then our union sparked something that made the telling of that story very different.
That false narrative became the mothership for all of the harassment you’re referring to. It wouldn’t have even begun had our story just been told truthfully.
Harry goes on a bit, then has some advice for Tattlers everywhere - thanks Hazza
Consider setting limits on the time you spend on social media, stop yourself from endlessly scrolling, fact-check the source and research the information you see, and commit to taking a more compassionate approach and tone when you post or comment. These might seem like little things, but they add up.
More droning on for a bit, then this zinger
PH: It’s funny you should ask because ironically, we woke up one morning a couple of weeks ago to hear that a Rupert Murdoch newspaper said we were evidently quitting social media. That was ‘news’ to us, bearing in mind we have no social media to quit, nor have we for the past 10 months.
And he closes with this bit
PH: We have to believe in optimism because that’s the world and the humanity I want for my son, and all of us.
We look forward to being part of the human experience—not a human experiment.
(ETA Hazza was actively posting, liking and commenting using his Instagram account until very recently. There is a long list of Twitter accounts believed to be operated by the Harkles. Then there are their Soundcloud accounts, Megzy's Pinterest account, their Daily Mail comment accounts... So if the Ginger Prince of Montecito wants to write essays like this lecturing the peasants on the truth, then he needs to start with reality, not Harkle-fiction)