Rebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
Meghan Markle said she experienced “cruel” online bullying while she was pregnant with both of her children. Speaking on a panel at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Markle said she is keeping her “distance from right now just for my own well-being.” The “bulk” of the social media and online “bullying and abuse” she said she has experienced was when she was pregnant with her children, Archie and Lilibet, and while she had a newborn.
Using the panel, which was being streamed on YouTube, as an example, Markle said it’s “fantastic” that it’s on the video platform because people are going to “have access to hear all of this brilliance and all of this insight,” but “at the same time, it’s a platform that has quite a bit of hate and rhetoric and incentivizes people to create pages where they can churn out very, very inciting comments and conspiracy theories that can have a tremendously negative effect on someone’s mental health,...
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