The Manti Te'o Netflix Doc is About More Than Just Catfishing

Former Heisman Trophy winner Manti Te'o has listened to every joke and seen all the memes and (likely) have shed all

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the tears that he could for having been the initial (and most well-known) famous victims of catfishing. Nine months following

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