No one should have to fear abuse and targeted harassment from single-purpose hate accounts on social media platforms. Bot Sentinel recently published a report outlining how single-purpose hate accounts on Twitter coordinated a hate campaign targeting Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and how some of those accounts also created YouTube channels dedicated to harassing Meghan Markle.

This petition isn’t just about Harry and Meghan; it’s about social media platforms banning single-purpose hate accounts and YouTube channels dedicated to harassing anyone. No social media platform should be used as a staging ground for abuse and targeted harassment, especially Twitter and YouTube.

After publishing our report, one hate account used her YouTube channel to encourage her viewers to harass a journalist who covered the report. Another group of hate accounts sent emails to a TikTok creator’s job just because she talked about the report in a TikTok video. Enough is enough!

We are asking Twitter and YouTube to take the hate accounts seriously before one of them gets someone hurt. Ban single-purpose hate accounts on Twitter and prohibit YouTube channels dedicated to harassing individuals.

You can read the report here: https://botsentinel.com/newsroom/reports