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Is it possible to love your catfish?

Is it possible to love your catfish?

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Virginia Heffernan
Nov 18, 2021
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This week on This is Critical, we discuss online romantic fraud with journalist Max Benwell, whose identity was stolen by a catfish. Why do we call it catfishing in the first place? Plus comedy from Kate James. Check it out here.

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