Call Her Daddy, a popular podcast exploring young dating culture and the wild sexual escapades of its hosts Alexandra Cooper and Sofia Franklyn, has blown up on social media, but not for its typical spicy dating advice. Since April there has been a feud between Barstool Sports, specifically its founder Dave Portnoy, and the show’s co-hosts. […]
Read more "Call Her Daddy…Or Don’t (Blog Post 3)"A hoax, according to Oxford Dictionary, is a humorous or malicious deception. Funny, right? Maybe, but not when the internet is involved. People have been “hoaxing” for centuries. The Trojan Horse was even a hoax. We hear about it in all sorts of media. We learn about it on the internet. So what happens when […]
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