It helps not to know, Meghan says

LOS ANGELES: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, said yesterday she had no social media accounts, ‘‘for her own selfpreservation’’, and had no idea what was being said about her online.

Meghan, who with her husband, Prince Harry, left the UK earlier this year partly as a result of media hostility, has been campaigning for months against the effects of negative online chatter.

‘‘For my own selfpreservation, I have not been on social media for a very long time,’’ Meghan told Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit.

‘‘I made a personal choice to not have any account, so I don’t know what’s out there, and in many ways that’s helpful for me,’’ she said.

She said she closed down her personal account years ago and that her and Prince Harry’s now defunct official Sussex Royal Instagram and Twitter accounts were managed by others. — Reuters