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Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

When Natalie Weaver stepped into the media spotlight to advocate for her 8-year-old daughter Sophia’s right to health care, she expected some pushback. She didn’t expect the flood of online hate and death threats that came her way … or for images of Sophia to end up on the wrong, hurtful, abusive side of the Internet. Learn more about Natalie’s work for families with medically fragile kids at Sophias-Voice.com. Support our new independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know when you're on a website and you scroll all the way to the bottom and the content
0:09.3	just gets weird.
0:10.9	It was recently on the website of a local TV news station.
0:15.3	I scrolled right past the legitimate stories about local politics, the effects of the
0:20.9	never ending drought here in the Southwest right down to the bottom.
0:24.9	And there's a big air quotes here.
0:27.9	With a headline that reads, T-shirt fails you can't unsee.
0:33.5	Okay, the photo underneath this headline is of an attractive woman in a baseball stadium,
0:38.1	I guess, and it's cropped from the neck up so you can't see her T-shirt.
0:42.7	And obviously they want me to click so I can see that shirt so I can see that
0:46.7	fail that I can't unsee.
0:48.4	And of course I do.
0:50.0	And the again, huge air quotes story has nothing to do with the image of the woman or even T-shirts.
0:56.7	It's just clickbait.
0:59.5	And this happens on Instagram and Facebook too.
1:02.4	There will be like a fuzzy, low-res photo of a person from a page like
1:07.4	inspiring things daily.
1:09.5	And it will be almost meme style with a bunch of writing about how the person in this photo
1:13.6	went through something and it didn't get them down.
1:16.4	And one like equals one hug and the post has 10,000 likes.
1:21.4	Sorry, hugs.
1:22.6	And you're like, this story is not real.
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