Harry and Meghan Markle “victims of a coordinated hate campaign on Twitter”

Meghan Markle in 2019 it was defined “the most trolled person in the world». Then, in 2020, he had denounced “Toxic attention” of the media and social networks towards her and her husband, the prince Harry. Now an analysis of over 114,000 tweets on the couple seems to agree with the Duchess: Harry and Meghan would have «immediately a coordinated hate campaign on Twitter». Bot Sentinel, an app that unmasks fake news on Twitter, published a report that examining the social network’s activity relating to the Sussexes found that most of the malice, racist slurs and falsehoods about the couple originated from a small group of account.

About 70% of the negative and often hateful content on the Sussex account comes from just 83 accounts. Whose main, if not sole, purpose seems to be precisely that of “Coordinating brazenly” to spread unpleasant news about the prince and his wife. The accounts in question overall had more than 187,000 followers. And the potential, according to the new report’s estimates, to achieve another 17 million users in twitter.

Bot Sentinel found that Twitter had already blocked many of those accounts in recent months, for violation of the platform’s policy. But the haters regrouped to dribble the controls. For example, by temporarily making accounts private or by inserting content that has nothing to do with Sussex to avoid being detected.

It is not the first time that Harry and Meghan have been victims of a hate campaign on social media. After January 2020, when the Sussex they announced that they would say goodbye to the royal family, an investigation byHuffPost UK based on data from the University of Sunderland revealed that Markle had been a victim of hundreds and hundreds of racist and sexist tweets.

Harry e Meghan they have no active social profiles since 2020. Ma fight disinformation and hate speech online, and making social media a healthier place, is one of the main goals of their Foundation Archewell.