Why does pasting something with angle brackets into GNU Screen not work in Alacritty?

pasting this into screen

wg pubkey  ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.public.key

.. results in this:

~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.private.key > ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.public.keywg pubkey

I know it looks weird, but that's the result. It's the angle bracket ">" that causes this. This must be some kind of known bug?;) I think I found some references on this once, but I forgot where. - I'm using Alacritty terminal and I paste with keyboard shortcut and mouse. - I fired up gnome-terminal and it seems it works there, so this must be related to Alacritty. - I also tried xterm and it works there as well, so it's definitely Alacritty that is the culprit.