What Really Happened With the Viral Bali Thread

Kristen Gray’s deportation is an internet fallout consequence, but further details attest to a bigger, more important story

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In 2019, Kristen Gray, a then Los Angeles-based graphic designer and creative consultant, was getting fed up with living in America. Just a year earlier, she was a tour manager…