Tim Burke, one of the stars of the popular Netflix series “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist” joined WaveMakers on Sept. 6 to discuss the two-part documentary that tells the bizarre and disturbing story of how Notre Dame football star Manti Teo rocketed to national prominence partly because of a double tragedy he overcame at the start of his senior year: the back to back deaths of his beloved grandmother and his girlfriend. As it turns out, though, Manti had been “catfished” and his girlfriend was not only not dead, but actually a man.
Burke, a former Deadspin reporter, uncovered the story in 2013. Since then, he has gone on to become a master of viral Twitter memes and videos, some of them skewering Republican hypocrisy.
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