THE SUN SAYS It’s time for conspiracy cranks and online trolls to get a grip and leave Princess Kate alone
Get a grip!
LAST week The Sun delivered a firm message to all the social media conspiracy cranks and online trolls: Lay off, Kate.
Our readers flooded us with messages of support because they, too, wanted the cruel hounding of the Princess of Wales to stop.
Yet on Monday, when our front page revealed Kate had been spotted at a farm shop in Windsor, the online crazies said it was lies and screamed for photographic proof.
Yesterday, we provided it.
Clear video evidence of Kate looking healthy, happy and on the road to recovery, with William by her side.
Regrettably, however, the madness around her still persists.The online sleuths and fantasists have gone into overdrive — peddling ever wilder nonsense.
What began as nit-picking attacks on the future Queen over her photo- shopping of a Mother’s Day family picture has now become a full-blown bullying campaign against a mum of three recovering from serious surgery.
That Kate had apologised for the picture editing clearly meant nothing to her tormentors.
Ridiculous
Instead, the Internet was flooded with sick rumours, many of them too ridiculous to repeat.Much of this rubbish was peddled on X, the platform Elon Musk likes to say is where users can access the “real” truth because “legacy media” like news- papers can no longer be trusted.
If anything, the senseless baiting of the Princess has been a useful reminder of the yawning chasm between credible, genuine reporting like The Sun’s - and the ocean of absurd speculation from people whose vaunting desire to impress followers is matched only by their total lack of knowledge or intelligence.
Far from shedding any light, X and the Chinese-owned TikTok have become cesspits of dangerous and deluded fantasy.
They have also seemingly been used to house thousands of fake accounts and bots managed by hostile nations like Russia.
Rogue states like these have seized on the saga to spread dis- information in an attempt to destabilise this country’s greatest institution and asset — our Royal Family.
How depressing that such naked propaganda has found so many useful idiots in the likes of BBC reporter Sonja McLaughlan — herself the victim of nasty Twitter trolls in the past — who yesterday wrongly declared our pictures were fake.
We all love a good gossip.
But ordinary folk mustn’t be tempted to fall for this abject and now provable nonsense.All sensible observers are 100 per cent satisfied The Sun’s video IS of Kate and William.
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