Weekend Whats

What to Watch: Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone are both excellent, as is Chloe Guidry (as a troubled teen) in Under the Bridge on Hulu—a show about a group of girls who become suspects in the murder of one of their friends.

+ What to Hear: NextDraft-approved indie rockers Cage the Elephant are out with their latest album. Neon Pill sounds great so far.

+ What to Read: “The police had been in her home for several hours before officer Matthew Reiss told her what she was being charged with. ‘He said, ‘You know what you did. You created deepfakes.’ I had never heard that term in my life,’ Spone tells me. She faced several counts of harassment, including three counts of cyberharassment of a child, but she wasn’t charged until March 2021, when she came into the police station, had the mugshot taken, and became the face of a moral panic.” Jenny Kleeman in The Guardian on a woman who was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all. And one other longread. “Their usual stroll for coffee and dessert would have to wait for next time. They hugged Elliot goodbye in the mild evening air, then got on the road back to LA. Chin left heartened by her son’s relaxed demeanor and newfound appetite. It would be years before she would begin to learn what those really were: the last in an accumulating trail of warning signs.” Mark Follman in MoJo: Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother. “A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy.”

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