The hunger for that definitive moment where the person who has opposed you has to say that they were wrong exists in maybe all of us.

Is it Shadenfreude, pity, anger? What should we be feeling when we read stories about the people who regret not getting vaccinated now that they're deathly ill with COVID?

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brandy Zedrosny.

Also on this week's show, how anti-trans hatred online fuels real-world violence and vice versa.

There's dozens or hundreds of people at the protests,

but it's thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who will see the

video clips of the protest later.

Plus, the dogged reporter who found Jeffrey Epstein's victims by searching through old court

documents that other reporters had overlooked.

I called them the redaction police.

They're really people with black magic markers that sit around and take things out of

reports.

They inevitably forget to redact something.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media, and I am not Brooke Gladstone.

This is Caddeo Rogers, executive producer of the show.

So Brooke is out this week on vacation,

and we've asked a friend of the show to help out the brilliant NBC senior reporter Brandy Zedrosny, who in her day job reports on

all things misinformation. Take it away, Brandy. Thanks, Kat. You might have heard me over the last

couple of years as a semi-regular guest talking about QAnon or anti-vaxxers.

Actually, this week's show hits on some of those things. Let's get into it.

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