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Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour. Around the table with me, our anthropologist Kit Davis. Welcome.

Thank you.

Blogger and author Chidera Eggeroo, aka The Slumflower.

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And journalist and deputy editor of the new statesman, Helen Lewis. Hello.

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They're here to talk about the political stuff, the personal stuff, the stuff you need to know.

No topic is off the table. Okay, so let's have this conversation.

Kit, I want to talk about one of your stories now that I find absolutely fascinating, the weaponization of women in fake news.

Tell me about this one.

Well, I kind of got onto this because I was having a conversation with my daughter about elections and about the ways in which this, you know, there's concern now.

There's so much anxiety and particularly in the states about the way in which, you know, fake news.

I hate that phrase is just not.

Anyway, I'm sorry.

But anyway, it's affecting people's thinking.

And one of the things that has come up is the ways in which people either steal women's images and use them as, you know, on Facebook or on other channels to kind of influence people.

And also the ways in which women themselves participate in spreading various narratives that may or may not be true.

So there's two different things going on here in this story.

As you say, the role of women who are actively participating and, you know, their

participation is real, but they're disseminating fake news or disinformation or misinformation

or misinformation.

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