Misinformation as woman: anti-feminism, news media, and disinformation’s feminized other

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Leigh Goldstein

Leigh Goldstein is a feminist media historian and critic based in Montreal. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and her writings have appeared in Flow, Jumpcut, and Critical Studies in Television, among other venues.

Meenasarani Linde Murugan

Meensarani Linde Murugan is a feminist media historian, who focuses on television, fashion, race, and diaspora. She has contributed to multiple educational collections for the South Asian American Digital Archive. Her recently published essays appear in the collections Anti-feminisms in Media Culture (co-authored with Leigh Goldstein; ed. Michele White and Diane Negra) and IndieTV: Industry Aesthetics and Medium Specificity (ed. James Lyons and Yannis Tzioumakis, Routledge, 2023). She holds a PhD from Northwestern University is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Library and Information Science at Indiana University’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indianapolis.