Nina Jankowicz was a right-wing target. Now she’s suing Fox News for defamation.
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In the first episode of our miniseries Present Future, Bridget talks with disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz. After being appointed to a position in the Biden administration to combat disinformation, she was targeted by a right wing smear campaign that upended her life and impacted her family.
Now, she’s suing Fox News for defamation. Are defamation lawsuits a new blueprint for how to combat harmful lies and harassment in the future? Listening to Nina's story, it's clear we need a change.
New Defamation Suit Against Fox Signals Continued Legal Threat: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/business/media/defamation-suit-fox-nina-jankowicz.html
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| 0:00.0 | We are back for a brand new season of their No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:04.5 | I miss talking to you all so much, and since we've been on hiatus, |
| 0:07.7 | I'm pretty excited for a new way to stay in touch on Patreon. |
| 0:11.5 | Over on our new Patreon, you can get even more bonus content |
| 0:14.6 | and just generally support the work that we've been doing with the show. |
| 0:17.7 | So if you like what we've been doing and want to hear more, |
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| 0:26.2 | T-A-N-G-O-T-I. Or just search for there are no girls on the internet on Patreon. There's |
| 0:31.8 | exclusive audio, exclusive writing, and a monthly live chat with me, Bridget. I wanted to start the Patreon to open up new ways to connect with all of you. |
| 0:39.8 | So I hope you'll join me there and help us shape the direction of the show. |
| 0:43.6 | I'll see you over on Patreon. |
| 0:49.7 | Because everybody loves attacking a young woman, right? |
| 0:55.9 | A young woman who has authentically lived her life on the internet. |
| 1:01.7 | There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 1:19.5 | In this brand new season that we're calling present future, we're looking to what's next, |
| 1:24.5 | the future of tech, the future of discourse, the future of platforms, and the future of us. |
| 1:29.7 | But we're starting in kind of a familiar place. We've already spent a lot of time talking about |
| 1:34.7 | disinformation, and I usually ask experts one question. So when you think about the direction of our media |
| 1:41.3 | ecosystem and disinformation, are you hopeful? Like when you look on the horizon, |
| 1:45.5 | are you hopeful about what's next? When it comes to the future of combating disinformation, |
| 1:50.2 | more and more, we're seeing some targets of particularly heinous disinformation campaigns |
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