Sep 14, 2026 · 39 min · 14 segments
We discuss "ugly laws", shadow bans, influencer snark (especially r/illnessfakers), influencers using sick kids for clout, child agency, state hopping by family content creators, the history of…
Jess RauchbergGuest
Caitlin BeggHost
I met someone in, uh, Washington, DC, about a month ago, and he runs this really large hom- uh, homeless advocacy organization, over a million followers, and he got so far that he had to get into contact with Meta.
... someone along the lines gave intel and said that, yes, they were squashing that keyword.
And it makes me really think about if some types of information or some types of people are really pushed to the side here, and, and we don't...
We're, we're not used to hearing about some of these, you know, more difficult stories or topics, and, and what's profitable is just what's, what's become mainstream and what we hear every day.
How does that affect the way that we go through our everyday lives and think of, of, uh, as what's, quote, unquote, "normal," and a lot of things downstream? And I, I think m- diving a little bit more deeply into this topic, I know that you've done some research about autism and TikTok, and I wanna understand a little bit more about that.
... 'cause I think it's really astute that what is happening on social media platforms or content creation platforms isn't siloed from the other parts of our lives where we lived.
And so if in the offline world, we can say, um, homelessness or disability, individuals that we don't always see, uh, or they're kept out of public life, and if we look back at the 19th century ugly laws, which is something I talk about in the book, um, these were unsightly beggar ordinances that basically kept disabled, homeless people, poor people out of public spaces, made it a criminal offense.
I met someone in, uh, Washington, DC, about a month ago, and he runs this really large hom- uh, homeless advocacy organization, over a million followers, and he got so far that he had to get into contact with Meta.
... someone along the lines gave intel and said that, yes, they were squashing that keyword.
And it makes me really think about if some types of information or some types of people are really pushed to the side here, and, and we don't...
We're, we're not used to hearing about some of these, you know, more difficult stories or topics, and, and what's profitable is just what's, what's become mainstream and what we hear every day.
How does that affect the way that we go through our everyday lives and think of, of, uh, as what's, quote, unquote, "normal," and a lot of things downstream? And I, I think m- diving a little bit more deeply into this topic, I know that you've done some research about autism and TikTok, and I wanna understand a little bit more about that.
... 'cause I think it's really astute that what is happening on social media platforms or content creation platforms isn't siloed from the other parts of our lives where we lived.
And so if in the offline world, we can say, um, homelessness or disability, individuals that we don't always see, uh, or they're kept out of public life, and if we look back at the 19th century ugly laws, which is something I talk about in the book, um, these were unsightly beggar ordinances that basically kept disabled, homeless people, poor people out of public spaces, made it a criminal offense.
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