There Are No Girls on the Internet
Episodes
Elon Musk Hates Lupita Nyong'o; Meta Is Erasing Queer Accounts; AI Is Penalizing Women - NEWS ROUNDUP
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There Are No Girls on the Internet is a weekly podcast hosted by Bridget Todd. Every Friday we drop our news roundup — the tech and internet sto...
eBay CEO Devin Wenig Orchestrated a Criminal Stalking Campaign and Walked Away With $57 Million
26 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is the 2nd episode of a 2-part series about a case where security goons from eBay travelled across the country to stalk and harass a husband-wife...
Elon's Election Interference, JP Morgan's 'Sex Slave' Lawsuit, Charlie Kirk Facebook Post & Take It Down Act Explained — NEWS ROUNDUP
22 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There Are No Girls on the Internet is a weekly podcast hosted by Bridget Todd. Every Friday we drop our news roundup — the tech and internet sto...
eBay's Criminal Stalking Campaign Against a Journalist Was Run by Ex-Cops. They Nearly Got Away With It.
19 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is part 1 of a 2-part arc about one of wildest tech stories I've seen in a long time. For over two decades, a husband and wife duo have been publ...
Instagram Instants Flop, Bumble Removes Swiping & Elon Musk Trial Juror Speaks Out - NEWS ROUNDUP
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
THIS WEEK ON THERE ARE NO GIRLS ON THE INTERNET There Are No Girls on the Internet is a weekly podcast hosted by Bridget Todd. Every Friday we drop ou...
Mark Zuckerberg's AI Era Has a Woman Problem. It Always Did.
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2026, Meta is racing into AI with all gas and no brakes — and it's giving us serious déjà vu. We invited Samantha and Anney fro...
Jeff Bezos Met Gala; Sarah Paulson Protest Look; OpenAI Stalking Lawsuit; My Handbook App's Fake AI Black Woman Scam - NEWS ROUNDUP
08 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There Are No Girls on the Internet is a weekly podcast hosted by Bridget Todd covering tech, power, and the people who get left out of both. Every wee...
TikTok's DoorDash Lady Reported Being Flashed — Now She's the One Facing Charges
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You saw the video. A DoorDash driver named Livie goes viral on TikTok after reporting that a customer answered the door naked and flashed her. The int...
Taylor Swift vs AI Scams; Epstein friendship w Peter Thiel; Andrew Tate loses lawsuit - NEWS ROUNDUP
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed. Here are the stories we discuss on the podca...
Clavicular, looksmaxxing, and how extremists hijack the algorithm
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of a 2-part series, so if you haven’t listened to part 1 (published on April 21, 2026), please listen to that first. In ...
Mr Beast Under Fire; Hailey Bieber Dogpile; “Emily Hart” and the AI MAGA scam – NEWS ROUNDUP
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed. MrBeast’s Beast Industries Sued...
Clavicular and the Looksmaxxing Cult That Almost Killed Him
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a teenage boy spends his formative years on incel forums, starts injecting steroids at 14, hits himself in the face with a hammer in...
Reese Witherspoon AI Gender Gap; Lauren Sanchez Cosplays Relevance; Online Assault Academy; Flock Spying; Nigerian WhatsApp Smut – NEWS ROUNDUP
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed. TRIGGER WARNING - one story discusses distur...
The Racist AI TikTok Scam That's Flooding Your Feed
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fake AI-generated Black women are flooding your social media feeds, performing self-hatred, pushing porn sites and drop shipping scams, and raking in ...
The Drama with Zendaya; BAFTAs Slur Fallout; Sheryl Sandberg Leans AI; Sex Pest Take-It-Down Conviction; Sex Toys Meta Ban; ANTIFA Terrorism Trial – NEWS ROUNDUP!
11 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed. Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In is fighting ...
Mia Ballard's novel Shy Girl was cancelled for using AI. You only know half the story
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You've probably heard about author Mia Ballard. Her debut novel "Shy Girl" has been at the center of a controversy about whether she used AI to help w...
The Goodreads Scandal That Predicted Publishing's AI Crisis
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Publishing is having a trust crisis. With AI accusations swirling around authors like Mia Ballard, whose novel Shy Girl was dropped by her publisher d...
Sam Altman Isn’t Building a Company, He’s Building an Empire (with Karen Hao)
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Investigative journalist Karen Hao was covering OpenAI years before most of us had ever heard the words "ChatGPT" or "large language model." Her best-...
Erika Kirk Druski Parody; Chappell Roan's Bot Army; Meta Loses in Court; & OpenAI Kills Sora – News Roundup
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike are covering the tech news stories you might have missed. Chappell Roan bodyguard controversy f...
Lindy West Told Us Everything in Adult Braces. Was It a Mistake?
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Remember the personal essay industrial complex? The 2010s era of Jezebel and xoJane where feminist writers put every raw, messy, private part of thems...
Afroman Wins Lawsuit; Buffy Reboot Slain by Hulu; Nicole Kidman Steals Bezos' Spotlight; Zuckerberg's Metaverse Shut Down - NEWS ROUNDUP!
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed. Afroman wins lawsuit brought against ...
Sam Altman Wants You to Have Sex with ChatGPT
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Not long ago, Sam Altman was bragging about how OpenAI doesn't make sex bots. Then, just two months later, announced the company would be rolling out ...
Grammarly Stole Writers' Identities; Heated Rivalry Fanfic; Uber's Women-Only Rides; & Is Instagram Dying? – NEWS ROUNDUP
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Joey cover the tech news stories you might have missed. Do Normies Have The Right to Read Heated Riv...
The Woman Who Designed the Face of the Personal Computer
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's Women's History Month — and this year, honoring women's contributions feels less like a celebration and more like an act of resistance.&nbs...
Hallow App Update; Meta Glasses Aren’t Private; Brothel Workers Unionize; Incarcerated Women of True Crime; Gen-Z gender wars – NEWS ROUNDUP!
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed. Hallow app beef update. Meta sued over false...
Chris Pratt is the Least Interesting Thing About the Hallow App (A Message to Live Action)
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In last week's news roundup, we did a short segment about the Hallow App. It's a subscription-based app that helps you pray and learn about scri...
BAFTAs racial slur; Nicki Minaj bot network; TikTok “Psychic” faces Defamation trial for University of Idaho murders – NEWS ROUNDUP!
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pre-order our forthcoming audiobook about AI and intimate relationships: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Love-at-First-Prompt/Bridget-Todd/9781...
A TANGOTI Announcement We've Been Sitting On
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Something has been in the works. Bridget shares what's next. LoveAtFirstPrompt.AI Let us know what you think by emailing [email protected]...
Chris Pratt Is Hawking an Anti-Abortion Prayer App; Elon's Grok Is Doxxing Women; DOGE Bros Let ChatGPT Do Their Job; Trump’s Big DEI Loss – NEWS ROUNDUP
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed. The story behind Hallow, the Christian app h...
Satanic Panic of the 1980s Is Happening Again — This Time in Minnesota Daycares (w/ Sarah Marshall)
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A viral video. A smeared daycare worker. A community in panic. Sound familiar? In the 1980s, a wave of hysteria swept the country, accusing daycare wo...
Amazon Ring Super Bowl Ad BACKFIRES; YouTubers Exploit Women's Arrest Videos; Salesforce CEO ICE "Joke" – NEWS ROUNDUP!
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed. Amazon’s Ring, a creepy surveillance p...
University of Oklahoma Trans Instructor's Attorney Still in the Fight After Appeal Denied
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When graduate instructor Mel Curth gave a student a failing grade for work that didn't answer the assignment, she couldn't have predicted what would h...
Should You Trust Andrew Huberman? What CBS's Epstein Disaster Reveals About Wellness Gurus
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Should you trust MAHA's wellness doctors? Dr. Peter Attia's gross emails with Jeffrey Epstein just exposed how mainstream institutions keep platformin...
WhatsApp Says Your Messages Are Private. They're Not.
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is WhatsApp reading your private encrypted messages? That's what was claimed in a bombshell 2025 lawsuit, which cited whistleblowers from Australia, B...
Tech Conference Faked Female Speakers to Look Diverse – BEST OF TANGOTI
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The tech conference Devternity was canceled (not fake canceled, literally canceled) after allegations that the founder has been inventing fake women a...
TikTok’s New Trump-Backed American Ownership Has People Fleeing
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After years in limbo, TikTok is now officially operating under American ownership for users in the United States, purchased by a group of investors ba...
Heated Rivalry's Podcast Drama; White House Posts AI Altered Crying Arrest Photo; Morally Dubious Florida Candidate Dislikes Only Fans - NEWS ROUNDUP!
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech & culture news stories you might have missed. . Oscar nominations are out, a...
Ashley St. Clair Apologized. Elon Musk Threatened to Take Her Kid
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Right-wing influencer Ashley St. Clair has a long history of transphobic behavior, including authoring a children’s book promoting those views. ...
Elon is Lying About Fixing Grok; Renee Good’s Killer Has a Rulebreaking GoFundMe; Tea App Wants Another Chance – NEWS ROUNDUP!
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Joey cover the tech news stories you might have missed. Updates on X and Grok creating nonconsensual...
Amy Poehler's Golden Globe Win | Renee Good Lies Debunked | DoorDash Hoax Exposed - NEWS ROUNDUP
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's the weekly news roundup! Rare Tuesday edition (it's still January; we'll get back to the regular schedule soon). Bridget breaks down the tech new...
Elon's Grok Sexualized Renee Good’s Dead Body — And He's Laughing About It
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is generating roughly one nonconsensual sexual image per minute on X. It's not just celebrities - victims include images o...
The Big AI Podcast Rejection
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! We're starting 2026 on a hopeful note. We all know that AI is threatening human labor across a bunch of industries, especially creativ...
Would you rather marry Musk, Zuckerberg, or Bezos— and other burning listener questions answered
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You asked and we answered! In this first installment of our first ever listener mail episode, the TANGOTI team reads your emails! Thanks to everyone w...
Women Use AI Less Than Men at Work. Is That a Bad Thing?
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a gender gap when it comes to who is using AI at work. Are women being left behind? The research isn’t so cut and dry. ...
Why We’re Fighting About Self Checkout – Best of TANGOTI
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget and Mike had conflicting and surprisingly strong feelings about self checkout machines. And it turns out, listeners do, too! We got more email...
Diddy was acquitted of his most serious charges. The Internet blamed a woman who had nothing to do with it.
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After Diddy’s acquittal, social media decided it needed a villain. And who better than a random woman?! Through a case of mistaken identity, dig...
Karoline Leavit’s lip filler in Vanity Fair; Man Arrested for Charlie Kirk Meme; Heated Rivalry; WaPo AI slop – NEWS ROUNDUP
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget and Producer Mike cover the week's tech news that you might have missed in this final News Roundup of 2025. Vanity Fair Goes to the White Hous...
Bot Campaigns Turned Taylor Swift Into a Nazi and Cracker Barrel Into a Culture War
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever looked at your timeline and thought “there’s no way this is real,” you’re probably right. In this e...
Was the Taylor Swift ‘Nazi’ Controversy A Coordinated Bot Attack? EMERGENCY EPISODE!
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you see the narrative claiming Taylor Swift is a secret “trad wife Nazi” take off across social media? In this emergency episode, we b...
This Univ. of Oklahoma Essay is So Bad It Launched a Culture-War Career
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a psychology course at University of Oklahoma, junior Samantha Fulnecky was assigned to write a short essay responding to a research paper about so...
Sabrina Carpenter shames Trump; ChatGPT bolstered misogynist stalker; Book festival's AI feud – NEWS ROUNDUP!
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's news roundup, Bridget talks with Producer Mike about all the tech news you might have missed. TRIGGER WARNING: One story is about a mis...
Jeffrey Epstein's Creepy Emails with Harvard and OpenAI’s Larry Summers
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The newly released Epstein emails offer a troubling look at the people who stayed in his orbit and the ways they interacted with him — including...
Why aren’t people boycotting Amazon like they’re boycotting Target?
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many people know about the call to boycott Target, but don't understand why Target has been specifically singled out. So we're re-airing this intervie...
Soledad O'Brien Explores Stand Your Ground in Netflix True Crime Documentary The Perfect Neighbor
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not every day Bridget gets to talk to one of her heroes! Soledad O’Brien has built her career on stories that hit hard a...
Meg Thee Stallion fights deepfakes; Wicked's weird press; Welder’s murder highlights dangers for tradeswomen; AI fetish bear – NEWS ROUNDUP!
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget is joined by producer Joey Patt to cover the week's tech news that you might have missed. Meg Thee Stallion targeted by racist, sexist d...
Andrew Tate is facing sex trafficking charges. He’s getting help from the White House
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Tate is back in the news. ProPublica reports that the White House may have been secretly trying to help him evade sex trafficking charges. Tate...
Elon Musk Insists He Does Read After Joyce Carol Oates Twitter Beef
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas has come early for Bridget, because Joyce Carol Oates is beefing with Elon Musk on Twitter. Bridget explains to Producer Mike what it's abou...
The Wellness Influencer Rebrand of Birth Control Misinformation
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birth control is the latest battleground in a wave of online misinformation targeting young women — and doctors and reproductive health advocate...
Stickergate Drama on Threads; Teen Vogue Layoffs; ChatGPT Suicide Lawsuit; Meta’s ad scam; DC Sandwich Verdict – NEWS ROUNDUP
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s just turtles and scams all the way down. Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show: https://www.reuters....
From Teen Vogue to Tech, 300K Jobless Black Women are a Warning for Everyone
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Black women are leaving the workforce and it’s a warning sign for the entire economy. From media to tech, more than 300,000 Black women have lef...
Meta RayBans Let Creeps Record Women; Flock’s False Accusation; China's New Influencer Law; Nudify App Ecosystem; Librarian Protests Censorship on GoodReads – NEWS ROUNDUP!
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Halloween, boys and ghouls! In this week's news roundup Bridget is recapping all the tech news stories you might have missed, so you don't have ...
Why TikTok Turned on the DoorDash Lady
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the internet loves a viral story. But what happens when that story is about a real woman being harassed and the platforms that ostensibly ...
Emiru Attacked at TwitchCon; Tea App Ends with a Whimper; Charlie Kirk Grifters; Spotify ICE Ads; OpenAI's Browser Never Forgets – NEWS ROUNDUP!
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Digging into all the tech news you might have missed so you don't have to. Tea App pulled from Apple's app store: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/ap...
Can BlackSky Fix What Twitter Broke Using Bluesky Tech? (w/ Rudy Fraser)
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Elon Musk took over X, a lot of us left the platform, searching for alternatives. One platform that gained attention is Bluesky. It looks a lot l...
Taylor Swift’s “Nazi” necklace controversy; ChatGPT is doing porn; Amazon is exploiting pregnant workers; Pinterest addresses AI slop – News Roundup
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the weekly News Roundup! Bridget recaps the week's tech stories that you might have missed. Pop superstar apparently pulls controversial ne...
Is Taylor Swift a Trad Wife? The Internet Thinks So (w/ Jo Piazza)
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Swift is getting married. And on her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, she sounds over the moon about it. But online, everyone’s asking:...
Drake Defamation Diss; Trump loses Nobel Prize; Robin Williams’ daughter slams Open AI’s Sora; Google Drops Women; YouTuber kills as "vengeance" for Charlie Kirk - NEWS ROUNDUP!
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the weekly News Roundup! Bridget and Producer Mike recap the week's tech stories that you might have missed. It’s True: The Int...
Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You Talking About Abortion on Instagram
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is all about free speech, just not when it comes to abortion. New reports from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ...
Elon boycotts Netflix; Ted Cruz Hates Privacy; Kash Patel Calls ADL Terrorists; Extremism is Bad for Marriage; RIP AOL – NEWS ROUNDUP!
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transgender for everybody! Everything is computer! We’re in a silly, tangent filled mood for this one! Every week Bridget recaps the tech news s...
Tylenol Autism Claims are Harming Women While Wellness Grifters Profit
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wellness influencers are perfecting the art of turning pseudoscience into profit. Whether they're selling supplements, offering classes, or just chasi...
Charlie Kirk Snitch App Data Leak; TikTok Rapture; David Lynch AI Reddit Revolt; Meta Exploits Parents' Photos – NEWS ROUNDUP
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
App for outing people who were insufficiently mournful of Charlie Kirk critics leaked its own users’ personal data through security blunders:&nb...
Karen Attiah, last Black columnist at Washington Post, fired for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, the Trump Administration and their collaborators are prosecuting a widespread crackdown on free expression...
Jimmy Kimmel Fired by Disney; Karen Attiah Fired from the Post; DOJ Hides Far Right Extremism; Ads On Your Fridge! – NEWS ROUNDUP w/ L. Joy Williams
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not gonna lie - it's been a rough week. The Trump administration has used Charlie Kirk's murder to crack down on dissent, shocking even their allies w...
Love Island Fandoms Get Dark ; Kristi Noem Writes the Rules at CBS; Girls Do Porn Creator Convicted; AI Podcast Startup - NEWS ROUNDUP! w/ Ashley Ray
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our weekly news round up, where we dig into some of the tech stories you might have missed. This week, Bridget is joined by guest co-host A...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Is Being Rewritten. Remember Who He Was.
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Kirk built his career by debating students and spreading rhetoric that was too often dismissed as “spirited debate.” Now, in...
The Dark Money Scandal Rocking Democratic Influencers
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week in Wired, Taylor Lorenz published an exposé on Chorus, a new force in Democratic politics that is funding Democratic influencers. Her...
Joe Rogan falls for AI deepfake; Elon Musk ignores abuse victim; Meta celeb bots flirt with kids; Luigi's new Shein modeling gig – NEWS ROUNDUP!
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's edition, Bridget runs through the news with Producer Mike. Tech companies saying, "Our policies prohibit the harm that is rampant on ou...
Debunking “Trans Terror” Moral Panic After the Minneapolis Shooting
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rightwing media often spread the myth that trans people are violent or dangerous — a false narrative with zero evidence. These “trans terr...
Will Smith's AI Fans; ICE hides deportation flights using Taylor Swift’s loophole; DC Sandwich Thrower Free; TikTok Hawks Stalker Tech – NEWS ROUNDUP w/ Nima Shirazi of Citations Needed
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For this week's News Roundup, Bridget is joined by her longtime friend and colleague Nima Shirazi, co-host of the OG podcast "Citations Needed" about ...
The Internet Wasn’t Always Run by Villains. Anil Dash Explains What Happened
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does it feel like the main voices dominating tech today are basically super villains? Billionaires who don’t care if the world gets worse, j...
Kendall Jenner inspired Meta chatbot lures a man to his death; AI TikToks distort DC; VTubers Sell Out Stadiums; Kayfabe is Everywhere; Tea App Update – NEWS ROUNDUP w/ Dexter Thomas
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget is joined in this week's news roundup by tech journalist Dexter Thomas, prolific writer, videographer, and host of the excellent podcast "Kill...
We Watched Amazon Prime’s War of the Worlds So You Don't Have To
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget and Producer Mike are taking a break from the dystopian surveillance nightmare unfolding in their city of Washington, DC, to review Amazon's n...
Introducing podcast “Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet” - EPISODE DROP
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're excited to share the first episode of Peabody Award-nominated podcast Long Shadow’s new season, Breaking the Internet. Hosted by Pul...
Trump's DC Takeover is About White Supremacy, Not Crime – A Rant from DC
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, President Trump seized control of Washington DC's police. It's national news, but it's also deeply personal for Bridget, who was born in DC...
People are in Love with AI. The ChatGPT-5 Launch and Kendra’s Viral Therapist TikTok Saga Force a Reckoning.
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A woman named Kendra went viral on TikTok with a series of videos about her relationship with her human psychiatrist, but the videos took a surprising...
AOC and Taylor Swift AI Deepfakes; TeaOnHer App; Crypto Bros Harass WNBA; Meta Loses Flo Lawsuit – NEWS ROUNDUP!
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Bridget is joined by Producer Mike to break down the tech stories you might have missed. Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve had some eloquent, powerfu...
Epstein was connected to power. What happened when women called it out?
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone is asking questions about Trump’s connections to Jefferey Epstein, but the president isn’t the only powerful person or institutio...
Sydney Sweeney's jeans; Jet2 Holiday meme hijacked by DHS; Tea app hack lawsuit; Substack promotes Nazis – NEWS ROUNDUP w/ Abbie Richards
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Bridget recaps the tech stories you might have missed with longtime friend of the show indispensable Internet advocate Abbie Richards. She i...
Tea App Didn’t Just Spill Data; It Endangered Women
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Tea App promised a safe, anonymous space for women to share personal experiences with men they dated. Instead, it leaked their private data. ...
Candace Owens sued by French President; Mehdi Hasan and Jubilee’s fascist “debate;” Trump’s grifty war on “Woke AI” – News Roundup (w/ Dope Labs’ Dr. Titi Shodiya)
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget runs through this week's tech news you might have missed with the brilliant Dr. Titi Shodiya, co-host of the excellent podcast Dope Labs. LIST...
The Twitter-to-Fame Pipeline of the 2010s (w/ Celebrity Memoir Book Club)
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remember the 2010s? Ubers were cheap, Obama was president, and you could get legitimately famous just by having a lot of Twitter followers. Claire Par...
Epstein files firestorm shows the power of online conspiracy
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Epstein story won’t die and in MAGA circles, it’s becoming a problem. This episode breaks down why the conspiracy has such staying pow...
Target Scammed Black Vendors and We Have Receipts
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, Target pledged to support Black creators and communities. Target spotlighted their products, and made headlines with its public commitments t...
Joe Rogan has Trump Regrets; Linda Yaccarino says bye Elon; Jeff Bezos Eyes Vogue?; NYT Helps Smear Mamdani – NEWS ROUNDUP!
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: Capturing The New York Times https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/capturing-the-new-york-times/id1570901784?i=10006...
Candace Owens Wants You to Think She’s Changed. She Hasn’t.
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is behind Candace Owens’ rebrand? Bridget explains Owens’ new playbook to Anney and Sam over at the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You....
Princess Treatment is Going Viral on TikTok, But at What Cost!? (A rant)
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok’s “Princess Treatment” trend has gone viral, and so has Bridget's response. It started with creator Courtney Joell...
#SkinnyTok Was Banned from TikTok. So Why Is It Still Everywhere?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to #SkinnyTok — a corner of TikTok where extreme thinness is framed as “discipline,” wellness becomes control, and di...
Jeff Bezos’ tacky wedding; RFK Jr. hawks wearables; Racist AI TikToks; Minnesota murderer's data brokers; AI bands on Spotify; BarbieGPT – NEWS ROUNDUP!
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Bridget is joined by Producer Mike to break down the tech stories you might have missed. Weird AI-generated videos depicting Black women in...
TikTok Minstrel Shows Are Mocking Black Women Using Digital Blackface
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you seen this wave of racist over the top AI generated videos featuring Black women on TikTok? Since the release of Google’s VEO3 AI ...
How Dating Apps Are Failing Black Women | IRL: Online Life is Real Life
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dating apps aren’t broken; they’re working exactly as designed. And for Black women, that’s a problem. In this season premiere of&nb...