Kensington Palace staff are devoting more resources to deleting comments and blocking abusive accounts. Software is being used to filter out the use of the n-word as well as emojis of guns and knives.
Separately, the advocacy group Hope Note Hate analyzed a sample of more than 5,000 tweets containing the most commonly used anti-Meghan hashtags. The analysis of the tweets, posted between January and the middle of February, shows that a tight-knit group of accounts is behind much of the trolling.
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Twenty accounts were responsible for about 70% of the tweets, sharing anti-Meghan hashtags, pictures and memes. The fact that such a small number of users generated such a large number of the tweets suggests that the accounts were created for the purpose of producing negative content about the duchess, Hope Not Hate said.
Source: The racist online abuse of Meghan Markle has put royal staff on high alert
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