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Why Utah Is Regulating Mom Influencers by The Wall Street Journal & Gimlet

Why Utah Is Regulating Mom Influencers

from The Journal.

by The Wall Street Journal & Gimlet

Published: Mon Mar 31 2025

Show Notes

Last year, a popular Utah influencer with six children went to prison for child abuse. Now the state has put a new law into place to protect the children in these videos. WSJ’s Zusha Elinson on the Ruby Franke scandal and her daughter’s efforts to keep it from happening again.


Further Reading:

- AFormer Child Star Is Taking On the Dark Side of Utah’s Mommy Bloggers


Further Listening:

- The Rise of the Tween Shopper

- Readers Can’t Get Enough of BookTok. Publishers Are Cashing In.


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