The woman behind the account is this woman named hiarichi. Sheis a for brooklyn base real iter. According to recent interviews she's done, and this is basically her full time job at this point. They were funded in part by the babylon bee, which is a right wingmuse media company. And they had been monetizing, also directly, through venmo donations through twitter.
Accounts like “Libs of TikTok” are fueling right-wing media to label people who speak openly about sexuality and gender as “groomers.” Vox’s Aja Romano and the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz explain this age-old practice.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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