Kensington Palace Is Battling Online Abus Aimed At Meghan and Kate
Meghan and Kate have become the subjects of abusive comments, forcing Kensington Palace to monitor social media channels to detect and manage threats.
Vile sexist comments, racist slurs and personal attacks against Meghan and Kate are becoming a norm on social media. Theyâve even been threatened with violence.
HELLO! reveals that the increasing number of insults have forced Kensington Palace to intervene, with the palaceâs staff spending hours online âdeleting and reportingâ comments and posts. One source told the magazine: “The Palace has always monitored comments but itâs a hugely time-consuming thing.
âThey can block certain words, but some of it is quite serious.
âOver the course of last year, with hundreds of thousands of comments, there were two or three that were violent threats.
âYou can delete and report and block people and the police have options around particular people.
âItâs something you have to manage because thereâs no other way to control it.”
Although the slurs canât be addressed directly to the Duchess of Sussex and the Duchess of Cambridge, due to the fact that they donât have individual public social media accounts, the users find other channels on which they can unleash their fury.
One source said: “A lot of hours are being spent reviewing old material and moderating comments under posts.”
You can find offensive comments under news articles and news outletsâ social media.
To better tackle this problem, Kensington Palace has turned to Instagram, which has a team dedicated to helping high profile followers and accounts for coping with unpleasant and abusive comments.
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Within the past months, Meghan has been attacked for wearing tight dresses âto get attentionâ or walking âstrangelyâ.
Some users on Twitter went as far as claiming Meghanâs pregnancy is âfakeâ.
Previously Express.co.uk has revealed vile trolls are spreading claims Meghanâs pregnancy is âfakeâ.
âIâm definitely ‘educated’ and I still think everything about Meghan is fake, including her pregnancy.â
Kate though has been accused of being âboringâ and âlazyâ, and the number of attacks against her increased as the alleged feud between the Duchessâ was raging.
The Kensington Palace source added: “It follows a Kate vs Meghan narrative and some of the worst stuff is between Kate fans and Meghan fans.
“Arguments about who looks more appropriate, for example, that turn into personal attacks on other users.
âItâs creating a supercharged atmosphere and everyone can join in, but what are the consequences of this?”
HELLO! has launched a campaign called #HelloToKindness which calls for positivity online following the increasing number of verbal abuse and threats against the duchesses.