podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736 For the OnlyFans star and influencer, navigating the internet is a full-time job.

From The New York Times, this is The Interview. I’m David Marchese. To be influential online today is to be bombarded with all sorts of difficult questions about self-presentation, public judgment, freedom of speech, personal power and money.

Over the last decade or so, Mia Khalifa has been forced to try to find some answers. In 2014, when Khalifa, who was born in Lebanon and raised Catholic in the DC area, was 21 years old, she made a decision that changed the rest of her life. Khalifa was working in the adult film industry and performed in an explicit scene while wearing a hijab. The video went viral and the response was harsh. She even got death threats, including a Photoshopped image of her being beheaded by the Islamic State. The vitriol was part of what led Khalifa to leave the adult film industry and try to go back to anonymity.

She couldn’t. So a few years ago, she decided that rather than try to pretend her past didn’t exist, she could try to own it. She gradually turned herself into a massively popular social media influencer, one with a lingering aura of transgression.

Khalifa now has millions following[…]”

From The Daily: ‘The Interview’: Mia Khalifa’s Messy World of Money, Sex and Activism, Oct 19, 2024

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