Diddy was acquitted of his most serious charges. The Internet blamed a woman who had nothing to do with it.
There Are No Girls on the Internet
iHeartPodcasts
4.1 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
After Diddy’s acquittal, social media decided it needed a villain. And who better than a random woman?! Through a case of mistaken identity, digital marketing strategist and former journalist Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, who had nothing to do with the trial, became the target of viral accusations and lies.
In this episode, Wynter tells her story of how misinformation, speculation, and Internet outrage collided in real time to pull her into a social media storm, and she breaks down what it means for our broader digital media landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.2 | There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and UnBossed Creative. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:21.5 | So if your social media feed is anything like mine, you've probably come across those |
| 0:25.9 | posts that look like real news. |
| 0:28.6 | You know the ones, flashy, all-cats headlines in stark black and white graphics, making |
| 0:34.4 | some explosive claim. |
| 0:37.0 | But they're not actually news. Welcome to today's media |
| 0:41.2 | landscape, where bloggers, influencers, and contact creators can say just about anything. And if it |
| 0:46.8 | hits the right emotional nerve, it can go viral whether it's true or not. And in the wake of the |
| 0:52.2 | trial of rapper and entrepreneur, Sean Diddy Combs, |
| 0:55.4 | that dynamic has turned especially dangerous. Because one of the most prominent women behind |
| 1:01.0 | the scenes in entertainment is now being targeted by a completely false and deeply harmful lie |
| 1:07.2 | about Diddy's trial. Meet Winter. Winter got into media in the first place because |
| 1:13.0 | she cares about the truth. I started out. I wanted to be, I wanted to be a journalist. Like I was, |
| 1:20.0 | I felt like when I was born, that's what I wanted to do. And I was, I was really committed to, |
| 1:26.5 | you know, even as a kid, writing, creating stories, |
| 1:30.7 | writing stories, and watching the news. |
| 1:35.2 | Linter has worked in all facets of entertainment and media. She's been a journalist, a podcaster, |
| 1:40.6 | a writer, a brand strategist. Basically, if it involves media and entertainment, |
| 1:44.9 | she has done it. I watched the news very young because I grew up in a home where my parents |
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