The Duchess of Sussex has criticised women who are “completely spewing hate” to other women online, calling on female executives in tech to do more to block it, as Prince Harry cheered her on.
The Duchess, speaking at an event about women in the media in Austin, Texas, said she could not “wrap her head” around how people could have been “so hateful” towards her on social media.
“It’s not catty, it’s cruel,” she said of comments written online while she was pregnant. “Why would you do that?”
“What I find the most disturbing frankly, especially as a supporter of women, is how much of the hate is women completely spewing that to other women,” she said. “I cannot make sense of that.”
She specifically criticised female executives at online platforms who host conspiracy theories, disturbing rhetoric and “very inciting comments”.
“There are a lot of women at the highest executive level who are great champions of women and great philanthropists, and they are working in these spaces, and yet they’re allowing this kind of behaviour to run rampant.
“And at a certain point, they have got to put the do’s behind the say’s and really make some changes on a systemic level.”
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