Last week we saw the story about Kelly Marie Tran, the actress who played Rose Tico in Star Wars

The Last Jedi and how she deleted her Instagram account. Most stories are saying that she did this

due to online harassment. That might not be true. We actually don't know for sure and I'll go over

that. But I also want to talk about the cycle of fake news. How a story will start as a rumor,

become speculation, and then someone will use that speculation to claim that people have reported

this may be the case. And from there, something that was entirely speculative or rumor becomes

fact in the news media. There are a lot of myths that persist when it comes to the culture war.

The gender wage gap is one of them. It's completely misunderstood. And it seems like no

matter how many times people will debunk the gender wage myth, it persists. There's another myth

that women are harassed online more than men. That's also not true. There is research to suggest

that men are harassed online more than women. And if that's the case, why is it that everyone

keeps playing it up like women are the overwhelming majority of victims of online harassment?

And if men are being harassed more than women, why aren't they talking about it?

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One of the first articles we saw used a non sequiner, this from Vox. Star Wars fans harassed

Kelly Marie Tran for months. She just deleted her Instagram posts. Tran is one of the first

lead actions of color in the Star Wars franchise. Now this headline doesn't follow through.

We understand she was harassed. What does that have to do with her deleting her Instagram post

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