Hey, this is Future Bridget. So we've recorded this week's News Roundup on Thursday afternoon,

the day before the New York Times just broke a story about Kate Middleton being diagnosed with cancer.

You can read The New York Times as full story in the show notes. But this news came out just as we

published the episode for this week. So we pulled the episode down so that I could re-record this

introduction that you're hearing right now to give that context. Okay, thanks for listening,

and here's the episode. There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart

Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

This is There Are No Girls on the Internet, where we explore the intersection of technology, social media, the Internet, and identity.

And you're listening to another one of our weekly roundups where we summarize and break down the news that you might have missed on the internet this week. Mike, thank you for

being here again. The last time we saw each other on the mic, we were talking about Kate

Middleton. That's right. It was a story that had been going on for a little while, and it seems

to continue to be going on.

It has continued. So I did want to give folks a little bit of a brief update on what's happened in Kate Middleton, Royals World, since we last spoke.

So this week, TMZ released a video of Kate out shopping. The video was shot by like a random person on a

cell phone, just somebody off the street who then provided it to TMZ. So TMZ also published

the metadata of this video. Metadata tells you when and where a piece of content was

recorded, which confirms that this video was indeed recorded next to Kate Middleton's home and was recorded on that Saturday, just like they said it was. Case closed, right?

Maybe.

Maybe is a good way to put it, because just like we talked about in that episode, really breaking down Kate Middleton, but really talking about how conspiracy theories move online more generally.

Once a conspiracy theory reaches a certain point,

there is like no amount of hard evidence that will satisfy people who are deeply, deeply convinced that something fishy is going on.

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