{"id":40162,"date":"2025-06-21T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/the-internets-nastiest-gossipmonger-has-been-exposed-and-guess-what-he-wants-his-privacy-marina-hyde-19\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:06:32","slug":"the-internets-nastiest-gossipmonger-has-been-exposed-and-guess-what-he-wants-his-privacy-marina-hyde-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/the-internets-nastiest-gossipmonger-has-been-exposed-and-guess-what-he-wants-his-privacy-marina-hyde-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet\u2019s nastiest gossipmonger has been exposed and guess what \u2013 he wants his privacy | Marina Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re not familiar with Tattle Life, congratulations. It\u2019s a site that subjects women to relentless scrutiny, and lo and behold it\u2019s run by a spineless man<\/p>\n<p>With as much as two weeks to kill before nuclear winter sets in, many of you will be looking to road-test your new fallout suits. In which case: can I interest you in the sensational unmasking of the founder of Tattle Life? It turns out the guy who operates the radioactively toxic gossip forum is a \u201cvegan influencer\u201d \u2013 I think it\u2019s one of those new types of job, dear \u2013 and his name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/jun\/17\/operator-of-gossip-forum-tattle-life-unmasked-after-losing-defamation-case\">Sebastian Bond<\/a>. From that professional description, Sebastian would never hurt a living creature \u2013 unless it\u2019s a mummy blogger, in which case he would gut her like a pig. Metaphorically, of course! Sorry, but that is simply the price you pay for not declaring the nappies you\u2019re unboxing on Instagram are actually sponsored.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m racing ahead. If you\u2019re not familiar with Tattle Life, it\u2019s an online forum that claims to be \u201ca commentary website on public business social media accounts\u201d \u2013 much in the way the torpedoing of the Lusitania was a commentary on the commercial cruise business. At one point Tattle Life was said to have 12 million monthly visitors. Which, to put it into context, is <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgazette.co.uk\/media-audience-and-business-data\/media_metrics\/most-popular-websites-news-uk-monthly-2\/\">more than the Times and Sunday Times website<\/a> gets, and considerably surpasses the visitor numbers of something like GB News. The other thing Tattle Life says about itself on its homepage is: \u201cWe have a zero-tolerance policy to any content that is abusive, hateful or harmful.\u201d This is a little bit like the Racing Post saying it has a zero-tolerance policy for stories about horses, greyhounds or sports betting.<\/p>\n<p>Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tone\/letters\"> letters<\/a> section, please <a href=\"mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city\/town\/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jun\/20\/tattle-life-internet-gossip-privacy-sebastian-bond\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re not familiar with Tattle Life, congratulations. It\u2019s a site that subjects women to relentless scrutiny, and lo and behold it\u2019s run by a spineless man With as much as two weeks to kill before nuclear winter sets in, many of you will be looking to road-test your new fallout suits. In which case: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}