“TuAnon” Unmasked: The Secretive Star of Dolphins Twitter Speaks

ESPN Daily

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🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Over the course of two seasons in the NFL, a story has been brewing around Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. For a while, the beats of the story were pretty familiar––promising young quarterback comes into the league, has his ups and downs, and leaves so many wondering if he’ll ever be the star they dreamed he could be. But last season, that story took a turn unlike any we’ve ever seen. That’s because a subset of fans decided to take control of the narrative themselves and, via Twitter, launch “TuAnon,” a conspiracy theory fixated on an alleged plot inside the Dolphins and throughout sports media to undermine Tua at every turn. So ESPN’s Dolphins beat reporter Marcel Louis-Jacques set out to find the mystery superfan at the center of the entire thing. And what he got was not just an interview, but a journey down a rabbit hole that gets deeper each day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.
0:06.9	It's not just any haircut.
0:08.8	It's supercuts.
0:10.1	Marsa Luis Jacques Miami Dolphins beat writer.
0:14.0	I am honestly, I'm honestly kind of worried to talk about the thing we're about to talk
0:19.8	about with you.
0:20.8	You should be.
0:22.6	This is high level, high security, classified information, you know, not everybody gets
0:27.8	to know this.
0:28.8	I feel like the topic.
0:32.0	It's so bizarre that when someone hears the word to a non, I feel like we need to explain
0:39.2	like what it really is, because I don't even know what you would think it is if you've
0:43.0	just heard it for the first time.
0:44.8	Right.
0:45.8	Like, is it a movement?
0:47.4	Is it a person?
0:48.4	Is it a website, a forum?
0:50.8	Is it radicalizing Dolphins fans?
0:53.2	I think the answer to all of them is yes.
0:56.5	So, do you remember when you first encountered this thing that is kind of defining your professional
1:05.3	life these days?
1:06.5	When did you first encounter Tuadana to begin with?
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