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<p>This week, Fuad and Vizla look back at the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/suicide-texting-trial-michelle-carter-conrad-roy.html">guilty verdict of Michelle Carter</a>, the 20 year old American teenager who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide. Then, they ponder on the mini social media storm brought on by <a href="http://says.com/my/fun/khairy-asked-twitter-why-people-keep-calling-him-daddy-and-omg-the-replies">YB Khairy Jamaluddin&rsquo;s &ldquo;Daddy&rdquo; tweet</a>, and end by considering a <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/529632/how-the-internet-is-changing-friendship/">video published on The Atlantic</a> about how social media is changing friendship.</p>

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