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You hear that all of the time over and over and over and over again, we have to do something

about it because it hurts real people.

It really does.

Welcome back to the show.

Glad you are here today, 855-839-1210 on Twitter at Rich Zeeoli.

One of the things that really terrifies me is the internet mob and the mindset of people

on the internet to try to destroy somebody.

Here to talk about it with me, Emma Camp is the assistant editor at Reason Magazine

and Reason.com, one of my favorite libertarian sites.

Emma, thanks for joining me today.

I really appreciate it.

Thanks for having me.

You wrote a piece from the June 2023 Reason Magazine issue how an ill-informed internet

mob ruined a UVA student's life.

There was a person named Morgan Bedinger who was accused on social media of telling

protesters they would make good speed bumps and was more than a year before investigations

cleared her.

Tell us all about it.

Yeah, so the story is about a young woman named Morgan Bedinger, as you mentioned, and

she was a senior at the University of Virginia when she was the subject of a series of unsubstantiated

rumors that were lobbied online by a very popular student activist at UVA named Zeyona

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