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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show, you daily dive into the news, |
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0:12.9 | This is a news show. |
0:17.6 | In huge internet news, Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, and countless others could be in serious trouble over their comments about Iman Khalif. |
0:24.4 | With Variety reporting that both have been named in a cyberbullying lawsuit that Khalif filed in France, and specifically they appeared in the body of the criminal complaint. |
0:31.0 | With the Paris prosecutor's office saying that its branches opened an investigation into the counts of cyber harassment due to gender, public insult because of |
0:37.6 | gender, public incitement to discrimination, and public insult because of origin. And while those two |
0:41.7 | were specifically named Variety reported that the lawsuit itself was essentially filed against |
0:45.1 | unknown person so that investigators could determine which people are at fault. Though there, |
0:49.0 | it's not really surprising that Rowling and Mus specifically were called out. Right, I mean, |
0:52.5 | they both have huge, huge followings, |
0:54.5 | and they contributed to the misinformation spread about Khalif. |
0:56.8 | Because after she defeated Anjula Karini, |
0:58.8 | the internet was full of unfounded claims that Khalif is trans or a man, |
1:02.2 | and there was other speculation about her gender. |
1:04.1 | This, even after the IOC defended her and denounced those claims as false. |
1:07.7 | With a spokesperson even saying she was born, female, was registered female, |
1:11.1 | lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, and has a female passport. And I mean, she even |
1:15.6 | comes from and fought for a country that is very anti-trans. But still, you had rolling, jumping |
1:21.0 | on the misinformation train and saying Khalif had the quote, smirk of a male who knows he's |
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