NEWS AND VIEWS: I don't know about you, but I am sick to death of hearing about Instagram influencers. I think they are a bad development. Why should these people influence others? What gives them the right to think they can influence others? But they do because their young followers are gullible. In this story, an Australian influencer living in Sydney is facing a backlash. She disclosed during a jokey podcast that she had killed two cats when she was a child. She was nine years of age when she killed the first cat accidentally, she says. Her name is Emma Claiir. You wonder whether the surname is made up as a lot of what they do is made up. She made the confession in her podcast called Simply Chaotic. I agree: it seems to have been chaotic. She was asked to disclose a secret and she told her co-host: "I killed my cat." She then chuckled as if it was amusing and continued: "I didn't mean to. I was young. I was a child. I was swinging my cat around. Like I was thi...