Meghan Markle may have deliberately released the video of her twerking with Prince Harry before giving birth to Lilibet to celebrate her daughter and also shut up conspiracy theorists - but it backfired, a leading British academic suggested today.
Trolls have weaponised the film to spread wild and groundless speculation that the Duchess of Sussex wasn't pregnant at all and was wearing a 'moonbump'.
A group of Twitter critics of the Sussexes have even made the extraordinary claim that the dancing video was faked and made on a film set - or could be AI-generated.
Sander van der Linden, professor of social psychology at the University of Cambridge, has said that the video may have been, in part, an attempt by Meghan to debunk baseless claims that have lingered in the dark corners of the web for years.
But he warned: 'In an age where all videos are suspect in terms of being AI-manipulated, it creates an extra cloud of confusion'.
