Published 14:22 IST, September 30th 2020
Meghan Markle says her public remarks are often misinterpreted and 'not controversial'
Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, on September 29, said that her public remarks were often misinterpreted and were ‘not controversial’.
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Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, on September 29, said that her public remarks were often misinterpreted and were ‘t controversial’. While speaking at Fortune Magazine’s ‘Most Powerful Women Summit’, Meghan said that she has always tried to ‘auntic’ in public comments, however, her remarks often were misconstructed by critics.
While Duchess of Sussex has repeatedly urged people to promote positivity, her husband, Prince Harry, on or hand, has encourd Americans to vote in upcoming election. As British royal family do t tritionally venture into politics, couple’s recent remark prompted a backlash in some quarters. Meghan and Prince Harry have also faced harsh criticism, particularly from British tabloid press, for her words and actions.
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In response, Duchess of Sussex said that if one looks back at anything she has said, what ends up being inflammatory is people’s interception of it. She ded that, however, if one just listens to what she ‘actually’ says, ‘it’s t controversial’. Meghan went on to say that re will always be ‘naysayers’, but if one focuses on mselves, ir value and ir moral compass, n it’s easy to live with truth and aunticity. “And that’s how I choose to move through world,” she ded.
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Meghan Markle against misinformation
Moreover, Meghan encourd people to avoid ing on misinformation online and to report comments that are untrue. With US presidential election just around corner, Duchess said that people need to have reliable media news sources that are telling truth. She ded, “without that, I don’t kw where it leaves us”. She said that re needs to be a reckoning in how digital communities are built and run and how people contribute to m when hate speech and disinformation can be spre so quickly.
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In recent months, Meghan and Prince Harry joined ‘Stop Hate for Profit Campaign’, which encours operations to withhold vertising money from platforms, particularly social media platform Facebook, for ir failure to appropriately respond to online hate speech. campaign was also stoked by ongoing Black Lives matter demonstrations following death of African-American George Floyd in May. She said that her overall goal is calling for change and if changes are being me, it’s for food of everyone, Facebook included.
(Im: MeghanMarkle/Instagram)
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14:23 IST, September 30th 2020