How tech entrepreneur and loyal ‘Sussex Squad’ member Christopher Bouzy vowed to fight online hate but once said Kate Middleton looked old enough to be Prince Harry’s aunt and called William ‘a balding Muppet’

Sussex ally Christopher Bouzy insists he is railing against online bile and told the couple’s Netflix documentary that criticism of Meghan Markle was driven by hatred and racism.

The Brooklyn-born tech entrepreneur, 48, who began coding on a Mattel computer aged nine, was inspired to combat disinformation and harassment online because of the 2016 Trump election win and the death of his mother during the pandemic.

But after scathing comments about the Princess of Wales‘ historic cancer video, which he likened to ‘North Korean propaganda’, critics have questioned whether he really practices what he preaches, especially after his own repeated online attacks on the British royals and their appearances.

Mr Bouzy claims he would ‘never troll’ the future queen and that his criticism was aimed at the British press and Palace officials.

But his critics have pointed to his previous personal attacks on Kate, William, King Charles and Queen Camilla, including comments about their appearance, writing once that the Prince of Wales ‘looks like a balding Muppet’.

On another occasion Mr Bouzy said Kate and William were ageing as quickly as bananas, telling his 375,000 followers on Twitter: ‘I don’t understand why, since they have a team of people who wait on them hand and foot 24/7.’

Around the same time on October 2021, he tweeted: ‘I’m sorry, but William and Kate look like Harry’s aunt and uncle’.

And shortly after the death of the Queen in September 2022, he said that critics of Meghan wanted to paint her ‘as some sort of harlot’, adding: ‘King Charles cheated on Diana and his mistress is now Queen Consort. All Meghan did was marry the man she loves while being black. Just stop.’ 

Christopher Bouzy on Meghan and Harry’s Netflix documentary and said he believes attacks on the Duchess were about hatred and racism

Bouzy described the trolling against Meghan as ‘not your everyday’ – and said that a huge amount of criticism of her comings from a small number of Twitter accounts

In this tweet from 2021, he said that William looked like a ‘balding muppet’

He said once that William and Kate looked old enough to be Harry’s aunt and uncle

Mr Bouzy shared this gif of a gymnast doing backflips in a tweet being sarcastic about Kate’s health just last week

In response to critics of Meghan’s podcast launch, he said: ‘Harry was never going to marry you’

He denies he is a conspiracy theorist but also insists that the video of the Princess of Wales at a Windsor farm shop ten days ago is a fake because the woman with William looked ‘ten years younger than Kate’. 

New Yorker Mr Bouzy was thrown into the spotlight by the release of Meghan and Harry’s Netflix documentary, in which he claimed there is an agenda against Meghan driven by ‘hatred and race’. 

The Princess of Wales was filmed ten days ago at her favourite farm shop in Windsor buying bread. She then left with William, smiling, while carrying her shopping.

Millions around the world delighted in her seeing her. Bur Mr Bouzy is insistent that it is not her in the video at all.

‘Windsor Farm Kate walks like a young woman rushing to use the bathroom. Moreover, Windsor Farm Kate looks ten years younger than Kate. So no, we haven’t seen Kate in public yet’, he said last week.

Doubling down on Saturday, after Kate’s cancer video, he said: ‘I am not the least bit embarrassed. I said the woman in the Windsor Farm video wasn’t Kate, and she’s not. Kate bravely sharing her cancer diagnosis has nothing to do with the smiling person who was walking fast and holding a grocery bag. I am vaccinated against gaslighting’. 

He said in another tweet: ‘The last time we saw a clear photo of Kate was in December. That is not a conspiracy theory; that is a fact’.

Christopher’s journey into the tech world began while coding on an Aquarius computer made by Barbie brand Mattel while brought up in Brooklyn by a single mother.

He began his career as a computer service technician, according to LinkedIn, and then founded his own IT firms.

Bouzy was inspired to create his analytics business Bot Sentinel by the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections – as a tool to prevent the spread of misinformation. 

He then came to the Sussexes’ attention when he claimed that he was targeted by anti-Meghan Markle Twitter users when he wrote something nice about the couple.

He claims that his research found that around 80 Twitter accounts were responsible for than two-thirds of all hateful ‘anti-Meghan’ messages.

Mr Bouzy has since launched own social network Spoutible – billed by him as Twitter without the bad bits – describes itself as a ‘safe, inclusive, and enjoyable online space’ with a ‘zero-tolerance policy for targeted harassment. 

His mother died in 2021 after being infected with COVID-19 while fighting cancer. He revealed that she was too scared to have the COVID-19 vaccine because ‘she had just heard so many different things [online]’.

He has said that her memory has inspired him further to force Twitter and other social media to remove misinformation.

The Princess of Wales’ historic video address about her cancer was released on Friday

Just 30 minutes after the announcement, Mr Bouzy took to X to write: ‘I am sorry to hear Kate has cancer, and I hope she has a full recovery. But it is also clear that all three earlier photos of her were fake, and the palace tried to cover it up’

Yet within 30 minutes of Kate’s broadcast, he was fuelling the fire surrounding conspiracy theories about  in a rant to his 350,000 followers on X.

‘I am sorry to hear Kate has cancer, I hope she has a full recovery. But it is also clear that all three earlier photos of her were fake, and the palace tried to cover it up,’ he wrote.

Mr Bouzy, who appeared on the Sussexes’ Netflix show, was apparently referencing Kate’s Mother’s Day photo, a video of her shopping in Windsor and an image of her being driven in a car.

The 48-year-old added: ‘The palace lied, and the British Press happily helped them lie. The countless ‘conspiracy theory’ headlines, while knowing a lot of what was being said was true. This is really some North Korea/Trumpian type of propaganda.’

He went on to accuse Prince William of throwing his wife ‘under the bus’ over the altered Mother’s Day portrait and said he had failed to back her in her announcement.

He has also shared a CNN clip, which has now been viewed millions of times, in which a doctor claimed that Kate’s statement did not make ‘medical sense’.

Asked how cancer could be found after surgery, Jonathan Reiner said: ‘With all respect to the Royal Family, that kind of press release doesn’t make a lot of medical sense.’

The professor of medicine at George Washington University said such operations are preceded by extensive CAT scans and MRIs, adding it was ‘very likely’ the surgical team knew of the cancer prior to operating.

Several red-faced celebrities and commentators including Blake Lively and Kerry Katona have apologised for their careless comments about Kate. Others have face faced pressure to follow suit including Kim Kardashian, who previously uploaded a picture of herself next to her car with the caption ‘on my way to go find Kate’.

Paddy Harverson, the former official spokesman of Kate and the Prince of Wales, said the online targeting of her was the worst he had witnessed. ‘It’s a sort of permanent doom loop. And it’s the worst I’ve ever seen,’ he told BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg.

Imran Ahmed, an expert in countering online extremism, said that platforms were guilty of promoting the conspiracy theories to keep audiences hooked in order to sell ads.

The Princess of Wales with her three children in a photograph released on Mother’s Day. Kate later admitted editing it

A photo of the late Queen Elizabeth II with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren was also manipulated, Getty images has said

According to tech CEO Christopher Bouzy, he believes the image has been photoshopped because, he claims, ‘you can literally see where two sides of the sofa were spliced together’

According to Christopher Bouzy, writing on Twitter, he believed the ‘beautiful’ image appears to be Photoshopped

The head of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate said: ‘There is an algorithmic acceleration of conspiracy theories, hate and disinformation over accurate information and calls for support because that’s what keeps the audience captive.’

He said that the princess had been ‘revictimised’ for not sharing her private medical information immediately and was now being subjected to ‘mafia style tactics’ to divulge more.

‘It is morally outrageous … social media platforms have compounded the harm done to that family at what is already an incredibly difficult time,’ Mr Ahmed said. His concerns were echoed by Twitter’s former UK and Europe boss Bruce Daisley who said the ‘serious issue’ was how X’s algorithms promote untrustworthy content.

Damian Collins, a Tory MP who has chaired the Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee, also criticised social media platforms for promoting false content.

‘If a clickbait story, based on conspiracy theories, grabs people’s attention, then they’re more interested in that than promoting news,’ he said.

Chairman of the Labour Party Anneliese Dodds criticised tech bosses for failing to take action against the trolls.

She told GB News that the speculation about the princess was ‘lurid’, adding: ‘It must have been extremely distressing.’