Meghan Markle says she was ‘most trolled person in the world’

The Duchess of Sussex has said that for 10 years she was the “most trolled person in the entire world” online

Speaking in Melbourne about the harms of social media, alongside the Duke of Sussex, Meghan said she was “bullied” every day for a decade and that tech companies were “not incentivised to stop” their platforms being misused.

The couple are in Australia on a four-day tour as non-working royals and used a meeting on Thursday with representatives of a mental health programme to voice their support for the country’s under-16 social media ban.

On the same day, Prince Harry gave a keynote speech at a workplace culture summit, with tickets costing up to A$2,400 (£1,260) per person.

The event that Meghan and Prince Harry took part in was at Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology.

During the sit-down chat, Meghan told the group: “When I think of all of you and what you’re experiencing, I think so much of that is having to realise that you know that industry, that billion-dollar industry, that is completely anchored and predicated on cruelty to get clicks – that’s not going to change.

“So you have to be stronger than that.”

Her husband added that he thought Australia’s social media ban for children was “epic” from a “responsibility and leadership standpoint”.

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