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• I wrote a lighthearted article about Meghan Markle – then her fans came for me

  09-10-2026 07:00 via inews.co.uk
  
  The comments came while I was cooking dinner. They continued throughout the evening, overnight, the next day and into the next week. I was told that I was appalling, vacuous and spiteful, “teeming with loser energy,” a “bitch, bitch, bitch!” How “f**king pathetically depressing” my own life must be, the trolls wrote on my Instagram. How could I sleep at night?It was an onslaught of abuse I’d been totally unprepared for. I felt shame and shock, but I was
  
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• I was terrified watching The Social Reckoning – then went back to scrolling

  09-10-2026 07:00 via inews.co.uk
  
  When David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s quick-talking film The Social Network came out in 2010, it seemed pretty juicy. I was in sixth form then. As I posted on my friends’ walls and clamoured for a dislike button and uploaded full albums of misspent evenings at the local Pizza Express, it turned out there was a backstory to this new, exciting tool everyone was obsessed with. The Social Network told the story of how Facebook came to be: a Wolf of Wall Street-lite full of sex, money and
  
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