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Sep 2025
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FROM THE VAULT - Jenelle Potter: Catfish

Wondery | RedHanded
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With cyberbullying and catfishing stories back in the news it felt like the perfect time to revisit this early episode from back in 2019.--Someone was cyberbullying Jenelle Potter: hurling online abuse and threatening her life with claims that she was "too pretty to live". As things escalated, inexplicably, the CIA seemed to become involved and Jenelle's par ... Show More
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