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Celebrity legal disputes are juicier than gossip, less stressful than true crime, and unavoidable on social media.
Kaitlyn Tiffany
Kaitlyn Tiffany is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It. She is the co-author of On Nobody Famous: Guesting, Gossiping, Gallivanting. Before joining The Atlantic in 2019, Kaitlyn was a reporter for Vox’s consumer-culture vertical, The Goods. At The Atlantic, she writes about internet culture and technology.
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