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omfg
what a fucking lunatic
Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸
@wiczipedia
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Jan 22
ICYMI: I’m pregnant with my first child, and was shocked to encounter the manipulation and outright disinformation that exists on pregnancy apps. I wrote about it for @WIRED
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wired.com
The Internet Is Failing Moms-to-Be
Even as a disinformation researcher, I was surprised and overwhelmed by the amount of manipulation in pregnancy apps.
Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸
@wiczipedia
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Jan 22
There are a few things I’d like to address that have come up in the 24 hours that the piece has been out. A short thread:
Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸
@wiczipedia
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Jan 22
It’s interesting—though not surprising—to see who’s engaging with this piece. I’ve gotten a lot of notes from other young mothers and women who are tired of the way the internet and society overlooks our needs, and expects us, as I write, “to grin and bear it.”
Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸
@wiczipedia
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Jan 22
I’ve gotten two notes from young fathers. Otherwise, veeeeery few male-presenting accounts have even clicked like on the piece, or congratulated me. This is part of the problem—our collective treatment of pregnancy as a mystical, feminine experience, and not a fact of life.
Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸
@wiczipedia
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Jan 22
So, my dudes, just because the headline says “moms-to-be” and the art includes a pregnant belly doesn’t mean you can’t read, engage, support, and think critically about the ways that the internet underserved half of the population (and by extension, children).
Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸
@wiczipedia
Also, I’ve gotten comments about my use of “pregnant people” throughout the piece, as well as my call out of an internet built for and by “cisgender white men.”
First, it was important to me to make sure this piece was inclusive. There are many non-binary people who give birth.
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