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Blocked and Reported

Jesse Singal, Katie Herzog, Ben Westhoff, Jessica the 80s Baby, Emily Dufton
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A Podcast About Internet Controversies

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  • Jesse Singal

    Author, "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills." I cohost the podcast "Blocked and Reported" and I write the newsletter "Singal-Minded." Currently working on a book about the fight over American youth gender medicine.

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    The only host of the only podcast

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    Ben Westhoff is the author of Fentanyl, Inc., about new synthetic drugs, and Original Gangstas, about the birth of West Coast Hip-Hop. He writes the Substack newsletter Drugs + Hip-Hop.

  • Jessica the 80s Baby

    Podcast assistant. Send me your stories!

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