The Wikipedia edit history for #princeharry since dating Meghan. Paternity trolling, homophobia, personal attacks & of course, anti-Meghan trolling. Disclaimer: It took so long just to get back to 2016 so I wasn't able to see what the edits look like too far pre-Meghan. 1/
Re: Paternity. of course, for years there have been "rumours" about James Hewitt being Harry's father. He isn't. The math don't math. It's so disturbing also to see people who claim to love him pre-Meghan, in a blink of an eye troll him about his paternity 2/
Then we have the trolling of Harry via #meghanmarkle: racism, misogynoir, obsessive m*gxit-like behaviour appear. Once again, there are MANY. so this bit is split into parts. Part 1 (3/)
Trolling of #meghanandharry on wikipedia part 2. including an edit that calls Meghan Chedder Man, a photoshopped image of which Republican candidate Paul Nehlen tweeted, 4/
anti-Meghan tweets on #Princeharry's wiki part 3 (5/)
There are personal attacks on too. These ones are homophobic, there are slurs, so apologies in advance 6/
And there are other malicious ones, including one that gives him a date of death. (I have seen this one on other royal pages though, could be same generally anti-monarchist person) 7/
There is a notable difference however in #harryandmeghan's wiki pages. Some of Harry's edits are funny (well, they try to be). NONE of Meghan's are. 8/
I was thinking, why? Why do people troll on wiki? They could tweet, blog, write it in their flipping diaries. But I guess its because, for the more conspiracy leaning-ones, if they can look at their crap on wikipedia, they can pretend for a day it's true. Wishful thinking 9/9
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Wikipedia edit history shows how malicious a lot of the #MeghanMarkle hate is, and how much of it is about trying to shape the narrative about her via trolling and misinformation. A thread:
Evidence of disruptive editing and vandalism which began in earnest when #harryandmeghan 's relationship was announced. Archie's page gets it too after he's born
A LOT of back & forth over how to talk about Meghan's race. Didn't include all those b/c the majority didn't seem overtly malicious & the careless ones got smacked down quick by editors. These however, are clearly malicious, note the "I speak truth" in the first pic about Archie
Thread on the racist trolling on royal twitter: On and off social media, racists, bigots & trolls don't need applause to keep doing what they do, silence is enough. 1/4 #Royals#royalfamily#harryandmeghan
It's why you hear the tremble in their voices despite their volume when they're screaming abuse at someone on public transport but somebody courageous decides in that moment they won't cringe in silence and let it go on. 2/4
This is why I get so frustrated when journalists especially say "I don't respond so I don't give it oxygen.". By not responding, you give them something worse than oxygen: legitimacy. They can act like what they do isn't egregious. They only need silence to carry on. 3/4