Hey, I'm Candace Lib, and you're listening to I-C-Y-Y-M-I.

And Casey missed it, Slead's podcast about internet culture.

And today, we have a special treat.

Today, we're bringing you an episode from Slate's What Next TVD podcast.

In this episode, Slate's senior producer and guest host, Shana Roth, and reporter Mia Sato,

who covers tech companies, platforms, and users, discuss Google's scam obituary problem and what happens

when your loved one's death becomes clickbait. And without further ado, here's the show. Beth Mazer and Brian Vastig were very close.

They'd been good friends, were even married for a bit,

and they were also advocates for chronic fatigue syndrome,

an illness that Beth had struggled with for most of her life.

But in late 2023, their friends began receiving alarming news about both of them.

Friends of the couple started seeing news online that said sadly both of them had passed away.

That's Miyasato, who writes for The Verge.

And it was kind of spreading within the friend group.

At least four people had heard the news online that they had both passed away.

And it was obviously this devastating, kind of like double whammy of losing two friends at

once.

As with most deaths, obituary started to post online, but friends of Brian and Beth noticed

there was something a little off about what they were reading.

The obituaries would say, you know, Beth and Brian sadly have passed away.

There were kind of across different websites,

sort of similar wording,

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