Previously on The Daily, I saw that both choosing our son of being a set of flowers.

My colleague, Kashmir Hill, told the story of a family whose reputation was ruined online.

All this stress about worrying about who is it, you know, and who could hate us so much.

By a woman with a vendetta that stretched back 30 years, that woman was eventually arrested.

But the defamatory post she wrote, live on.

Today, in part two, Kashmir explores the dark world of websites that profit from this

kind of gossip and slander.

And why, despite all the damage they do, these sites can operate and thrive without consequences.

Once Monday, May 3rd.

So Kashmir, just to bring everyone up to speed, last time we talked, you told us about

these websites that are known as complaint sites that exist solely to host outrageous

defamatory claims about people.

And what you told us is that anyone can post on these sites and they can say anything

they want without any supporting evidence.

Yeah, these sites are the bathroom wall of the internet.

And they have names like WTF Cheater, Dead Beads Exposed, Predator Alert, and they exist

to rank high in Google search results.

And in that original conversation, you told the story of a single family that had all

of these false allegations made about them on these kinds of websites.

And I think that got a lot of us wondering beyond the story of this one family, just how

big a problem all of this has become.

Well, we wanted to understand the scope of this and how many people it was affecting.

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