Maria Walsh

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588 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 May

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The Laura Dowling Experience · Maria Walsh | Deepfakes, Politics and Women's Health #168 · 7 May 2026 podcast

I actually got a message from a guy who had seen something that apparently Professor Luke O'Neill was promoting for prostate cancer.

And he actually phoned me up, a lad I used to swim with, and he goes, God, is this thing good?

I see Luke O'Neill promoting it.

I was like, that is absolutely fake.

Yeah.

It also begs the question, why can't they go after these groups of paedophiles that are actually actively searching out young people online, you know, within, say, the social media apps as well, because they claim that they can't do that.

But yet they're able to shut down things or they're able to pop up things whenever they want.

So...

And what can we do about it then?

Because you said it's the people that disseminate it that get in trouble.

But from a policy level then, what needs to happen?

And even at that, just say they were banned, any tech genius could just pop one of these apps up at any time.

So how do we regulate it?

And then I was going to talk to you about female genital mutilation.

So we're going from one miserable topic to another.

But I think that it's important that we do highlight it because you actually said that it was on the rise, which surprises me because I thought there was so much work being done around the prevention of it and people going into these villages and trying to educate the villages.

But it really is a societal thing.

And is the reason behind it so that women don't enjoy sex, they don't go off and find a... In many ways.

But in doing so, it causes so many other issues like urinary incontinence, pain, recurring infections, all of that kind of thing.

Well, just even taking it back a level, we would typically say the symptoms and signs of a heart attack are, you know, chest pain and pain down your arm.

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