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

Fourth Control is the latest battleground in a wave of online misinformation targeting young people,

and doctors and reproductive health advocates are sounding the alarm about its impacts.

But this isn't just your typical fear-mongering about birth control, the kind coming from

Bible thumpers or conservative

politicians in suits. This new wave is coming from wellness influencers, the ones in matching pastel

workout sets, who are linking a balanced natural life with ditching hormonal birth control. And while it may

look like a rebrand, this kind of misinformation is as harmful as ever.

To unpack what's going on, I spoke with my friend Samantha and Annie over at the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You.

We were talking right around Halloween, so of course we had to start with our opinions on horror movies.

Because what's scarier than wellness misinformation, right?

Music Because what's scarier than wellness misinformation, right? What's funny to me is both of you had to sneak to watch horror as youth.

I grew up in the opposite household.

My dad was the person who was taking a much too young child to the theater

to see horror movies. And we would, this is, this is not going to make him sound like a great

parent, which I swear he was. But we would stay up late to watch Tales from the Crip together,

which to this day, I love Tales from the Crypt. Yeah.

It's hard to find.

You can watch it probably bootleg on YouTube.

But there was a time in my life, like maybe a year ago when I was having a really tough

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