In the trailer for the next tranche of the “Harry & Meghan” Netflix documentary, to be released on Thursday, a new character is introduced: Christopher Bouzy, a specialist in tracking disinformation and targeted attacks on social media. His company, Bot Sentinel, monitors inauthentic and coordinated trolling campaigns and he’s been following the online campaigns targeting Meghan Markle for years — and has since become a target himself.

The broad-based, lucrative online campaign targeting Harry and Meghan with conspiracy theories and mass trolling is “by far the worst, worse than anything I’ve experienced doing this,” Bouzy told me.

According to a Bot Sentinel report released earlier this year, online campaigns targeting the royal couple have become a cottage industry for a handful of online influencers. Bouzy calls them “single purpose hate accounts.” Their platforms are devoted solely to posting about the couple and, according to the report, have become “a lucrative hate-for-profit enterprise” where “racism and YouTube ad revenue are the primary motivators.” 

The report describes the conspiracy theories they promote as “reminiscent of QAnon.”