
The first lady has put the Barbra Streisand effect in overdrive with a PR nightmare of her own makingYou’ve probably heard of the : the phenomenon where attempts to censor information end up drawing more attention to it.Now we might soon be referencing the effect: the phenomenon where holding a to state that you did not have a relationship with a dead paedophile, and would like people to please stop speculating about the matter, immediately causes people to start speculating about the matter.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist