Meghan 'Megbot' Markle

Puppets representing Harry and Meghan at the stand of British satirical television puppet show. Spitting Image during the MIPCOM 2019 trade show in Cannes, France. Photo: Arnold Jerocki. Getty Images

Suspicious "bot-like" Twitter accounts and handles linked to Russian conspiracy theories have been "obsessively" tweeting about the Duchess of Sussex, an investigation has found.

Analysis of accounts interconnected into a "Meghan Markle" Twitter community found around 1,000 "highly-connected" accounts which have tweeted more than two and half million times since September.

One account with the second highest number of pro-Meghan followers, which also tweets about US politics from a pro-Democratic perspective, appears to indicate "bot-like activity" while the fourth most shared account frequently tweets from Russia Today and has questioned Sergei Skripal's near-fatal Novichok poisoning, reports Telegraph UK.

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