There Are No Girls on the Internet
Episodes
Arrested for making TikToks? Yup. It happened to Coco Briscoe
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Former comedian Coco Briscoe started chronicling her search for love on TikTok with her popular series Dating DC. It led to her arrest. T...
Meet the woman who went undercover to infiltrate white supremacists (Live from Union Stage!)
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After losing her job, Amanda Moore went undercover to investigate the white supremacists Making America "Great" Again.This episode was taped...
She was sexually assaulted during a Lyft ride. Now she’s fighting to make rideshares safer for everyone.
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alison Turkos was gang raped at gunpoint during a Lyft ride. She is suing Lyft, the New York Police Department and fighting for systemic change.  ...
Gender Pay Gap Bot calls out performative tweets on International Women's Day (and spreads a little social media chaos along the way)
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On International Women's Day, brands unleashed their tweets "celebrating women." But the Gender Pay Gap Bot was here to call out the hy...
Stuff Mom Never Told You: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black female SCOTUS nominee
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States. And because she’s a Black woman,...
Whitney Houston: The Zombification of an Icon
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A hologram of the late Whitney Houston is doing a residency in Las Vegas. Spirituality writer Brooke Obie asks what this means about celebr...
Scammers are using TikTok to cash in on the invasion of Ukraine
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From fake videos to fake live streams, TikTok is awash in disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine. Social media expert Marieke Kuypers has been f...
What’s happening with people of color in Ukraine?
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
People of color in Ukraine reported racist mistreatment as they tried to flee the country in the wake of the invasion by Russia. And sadly, bad actor...
Amanda Knox asks: Who gets to own their story?
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this season opener, exoneree, activist, new mom, and host of the podcast Labyrinths Amanda Knox imagines a healthier media landscape.Check out the ...
There Are No Girls On The Internet is back for a brand new season!
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the brand new season of There Are No Girls On The Internet, we’re talking about the past, the present and the future of OUR experiences online. ...
Revisiting Miss Estella's Brilliant Bus
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of our favorite TANGOTI guests of all time, Miss Estella Pyfrom of Estella's Brilliant Bus, a mobile learning and technology center, passed away ...
Sex and the City's Miranda was a techie. So what happened in the reboot And Just Like That?
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spoiler Alert: This episode contains spoilers for the first two epsodoes of the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That If you watched Sex and T...
Joe Rogan and Spotify’s Big Misinfo Problem
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Disinformation researcher Abbie Richards explains the big issues with Spotify platforming Joe Rogan’s misinformation. We’ll be back for our new s...
The Capitol insurrection was fueled by the anti-abortion movement
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Just days after the deadly riot at the Capitol last year, Bridget joined the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You to explore the huge overlap between the...
TANGOTI CLASSIC: How The Matrix Explains a Trans Experience
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff talks about the 1999 film The Matrix as an allegory for the trans experience. Donate to House of Tulip: https://www.gofundm...
#FreeBritney as a successful online movement
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, Pop icon Britney Spears' conservatorship was voided in part because of a massive movement organizing online. Online organizing expert an...
Happy Spotify Wrapped season!
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tis the season! To post your Spotify Wrapped on social media, that is. In this special holiday episode, Bridget digs into the history and legacy of S...
Sorry, Politico. Kamala Harris is right about Bluetooth
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Politico piece called Vice President Kamala Harris' preference for wired headphones over Bluetooth “paranoia.” But why let a little things like...
Activision Blizzard's toxic workplace for women: STUFF MOM NEVER TOLD YOU
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Activision Blizzard, one of the largest and most influential gaming companies in the world, has a sexual harassment problem. Bridget joined her fri...
Sabrina Prater TikTok "conspiracy" reveals who gets to feel safe and seen online
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of wannabe internet detectives accused TikToker SabrinaPrater625 of being a serial killer for no real reason. SabrinaPrater625's saga reveal...
TANGOTI CLASSIC: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing a coordinated disinfo attack
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AOC took to Instagram Live to share her story of being in the Capitol complex during the insurrection. But now she's at the center of a coordinated r...
Satanic panic is dominating TikTok conversation around Travis Scott and Astroworld
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Almost immediately after the Astroworld tragedy that left 10 people dead and hundreds more injured, conspiracy theories began popping up claiming the ...
Travis Scott partnered with BetterHelp after the Astroworld tragedy. Therapy Den’s Jeff Guenther explains why it might not be a good thing.
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After the tragedy at Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival that left 10 dead and hundreds injured and traumatized, the rapper announced a “partnershi...
How can we change Facebook? Try logging out for 3 days.
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to whistleblowers like Sophie Zhang and Frances Haugen, we know more than ever about the harms Facebook has caused in our communities. But what...
Dave Chapelle isn’t “cancelled.” But a pregnant, Black, trans staffer was fired in the wake of his Netflix fallout
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
B. Pagels-Minor, a former Netflix program manager, was fired in the wake of Dave Chapelle’s transphobic comedy special. But B is still fighting to b...
How to be a whistleblower with Sophie Zhang
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Frances Haugen isn’t the only woman to blow the whistle on Facebook. Meet Sophie Zhang, a former Facebook data scientist who blew the whistle on Fac...
Facebook makes money off of harming girls: Stuff Mom Never Told You
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Frances Haugen’s is just the latest former Facebook employee to blow the whistle on the platform’s harms. Bridget talks to Anney and Sam of the St...
LulaRoe used social media to prey on vulnerable women
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon Prime just dropped a new documentary series called LulaRich that chronicles the rise and fall of LulaRoe, the multi level marketing scheme that...
Gabby Petito and the search for ethical true crime
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From social media sleuths to conspiracy theorists, Jessica Dean ,aka Bloodbathandbeyond joins us to discuss what happens when the darkest moments of a...
She shaped the early days of the internet. Now she’s making it even better.
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Denise Duncan has worked in technology since the very beginning of the internet. Now, as the head for project management for Project Liberty, an initi...
Nicki Minaj, WTF are you doing?
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We needed an emergency episode aboutNicki Minaj using her massive platforms to irresponsibly spread fictions about the COVID vaccine.Nicki Minaj and ...
Why we’re all burnt out + Our first live show!
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BIG NEWS! We’re doing our first ever LIVE taping of There Are No Girls on the Internet at Unfinished Live on Sep 23 and 24th at the Shed in NYC and ...
Texas’ abortion law is just another disinfo fueled attack on democracy
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Texas just passed the most extreme anti-abortion law in the country. But it’s yet another plank of a coordinated disinformation fueled attack on dem...
What Facebook doesn't want you to know about misinformation
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking a quick break from our hiatus for an update on the recent news about COVID vaccine misinformation on Facebook. Plus, we revisit the stor...
DISINFORMED is over for now, but the conversation continues
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On our final episode of this season, Bridget sits down with producer Mike to look back at where we've been and where we're going next. If you'd like...
DISINFORMED: CBS erases Black women in a story about racial bias
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joy Buolamwini, Timnit Gebru, and Deb Raji, are Black female scientists who conducted groundbreaking research on gender and racial bias in facial rec...
DISINFORMED: True crime podcaster, attorney, and advocate Rabia Chaudry is at the center of a targeted harassment campaign
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You might know attorney and justice advocate Rabia Chaudry from the hit podcast Serial. Or her hit podcast Undisclosed, a true crime podcast that expl...
DISINFORMED: Gwyneth Paltrow is a scammer
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Australian women spoke up after the beauty and wellness retailer Mecca announced Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow as the keynote speaker for th...
Tangoti Classic: Bill Gates' divorce sheds light on Jeffrey Epstein's deep tech connections
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bill and Melinda Gates are divorcing and the Wall Street Journal reported it is in part due to Bill meeting with convicted child sexual abuser Jeffrey...
DISINFORMED: Trump's Facebook ban was upheld. Is this censorship? NO! Pen America's Nora Benavidez explains.
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday Facebook's Oversight Board upheld the decision to ban Trump from social media for now. Facebook has 6 months to decide if the decision...
DISINFORMED: This TikTok creator says you probably won’t be trafficked in a parking lot
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok is a hotbed of viral misinformation about trafficking. Jessica AKA BloodBathAndBeyond is trying to change that.You’re Wrong About’s Micheal...
DISINFORMED: The New York Post’s lie about Kamala Harris went viral. Here’s why we should all be angry.
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The New York Post published a viral lie about Kamala Harris’ children books Superheros are Everywhere being included in “welcome kits” to unacco...
DISINFORMED We’re wrong about trafficking w/ Michael Hobbes
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Odds are, you’re probably not going to be kidnapped and sold into sex trafficking in a Target parking lot in broad daylight. On the fantastic podcas...
DISINFORMED: Instagram wellness "experts” are spewing yoga infused BS about miscarriages and vaccines
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A flurry of self proclaimed health, wellness, and spirituality influencersare using their social media platforms to push inaccurate information about ...
DISINFORMED: Boys are being radicalized by sexist, racist online networks and she went undercover to expose them
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes called “The Manosphere,” a network of sexist, racist online communities are taking advantage of algorithms to indoctrinate young men int...
TANGOTI Classic: She built a movement to take on Breitbart
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nandini Jammi co founded Sleeping Giants, one of the most influential activist campaigns of the Trump era. But she was almost completely left out ...
DISINFORMED: Stop comparing Ashli Babbitt and Daunte Wright
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Daunte Wright, an unarmed Black man, was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn Center, MN. Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by police whil...
DISINFORMED: What that SNL skit on Black folks and vaccines got wrong
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Saturday Night Live skit about Black folks not wanting the COVID vaccine sparked a conversation about vaccine hesitancy. But making Black folks the ...
So you’re the target of an online hate campaign. Now what?
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Harassment online is nothing new, but we’ve seen waves of women in journalism being harassed on social media just for doing their jobs. Being targe...
Why everyone is mad at Jimmy Fallon and Addison Rae
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok star Addison Rae’s dance segment on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon sparked conversations about crediting Black creators online.For more o...
DISINFORMED: In Georgia, disinformation is now law
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia’s massive new voting law is a response to lies, distortions and disinformation about the 2020 election.Independent journalist Anoa Changa br...
DISINFORMED: Tech CEOs testify before Congress + Carrie Goldberg on Section 230
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified before Congress about misinformation on their platforms and Section 230. In this week’s e...
DISINFORMED: Understanding Section 230 with Evan Greer
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Musician and digital rights activist Evan Greer breaks down Section 230 and why she and other digital rights activists are fighting to preserve it.Fol...
There Are No Girls on the Internet x Stuff Mom Never Told You
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered about the origins of some of the digital symbols and icons we use in the world of technology? Bridget Todd shares the story of ...
DISINFORMED: The Future of the Internet with Sydette Harry
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Archivist Sydette Harry wants to build a more accessible internet future, one where everyone can see themselves reflected.Read Sydette’s Wired piece...
How Estella’s Brilliant Bus is bridging the digital divide + Bridget’s Birthday
13 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate her birthday, Bridget honors one of her tech heroes, Estella Pyfrom, who brings technology to communities who need it most with Estella’...
DISINFORMED: Meghan Markle has been the target of a racist harassment campaign
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Research is clear that Black women are disproportionately the targets of online harassment. And even though she’s rich and famous, the story Meghan ...
DISINFORMED: What Vanessa Guillen can teach us about disinformation
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, we spoke to Meghna Mahadevan, Chief Disinformation Defense Strategist at United We Dream, the country’s largest immigrant youth led...
DISINFORMED: Meet the activist using data science to fights Nazis
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Activist Emily Gorcenski uses her data science background to track and combat Nazis and white supremacists. She explains why the dangerous work of res...
DISINFORMED: Republicans are leaning into transphobia
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Next week, we’ll hear from Emily Gorcenski, an activist who uses her data science background to fight Nazis (seriously!)This work isn’t easy and E...
DISINFORMED: Immigrant communities are facing a flood of disinformation
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meghna Mahadevan is Chief Disinformation Defense Strategist at United We Dream, the country’s largest immigrant youth led organization. She explains...
DISINFORMED: Facebook’s bans news in Australia is silencing activists
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook’s hasty ban on all news content in Australia has already had far reaching consequences. Digital organizer and founder of OrganiseUs, Tabath...
Pay Us What You Owe: Why Black Women in Tech are Tired
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ifeoma Ozoma pioneered groundbreaking work to keep dangerous health misinformation off Pinterest, even before we were in a pandemic. But it came at gr...
DISINFORMED: Slowing down on Social Media
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Pen America’s Nora Benavidez talked about how slowing down on social media is a concrete step anyone can take to curb disi...
DISINFORMED: Is kicking Trump off Twitter censorship? (Spoiler: IT’S NOT)
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's the first day of Trump’s second impeachment trial. And no matter what happens, it’s clear he used social media to threaten our democracy with...
DISINFORMED: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing a coordinated disinfo attack
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AOC took to Instagram Live to share her story of being in the Capitol complex during the insurrection. But now she's at the center of a coordinated r...
DISINFORMED: Why "Jewish Space Lasers" are no laughing matter
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The internet laughed at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green's unfounded conspiracy theory that laser beams from space controlled by the Rothschild banking fir...
TANGOTI Classic: How Black Women Tried to Save Twitter
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode of DISINFORMED, Shireen Mitchell explored how Black women were among the first to speak up about the threat posed by disinforma...
DISINFORMED: Black women tried to tell you
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Black women have been sounding the alarm about the threat posed by disinformation for years. But people with power weren’t listening. Shireen Mitche...
DISINFORMED: How'd we get here?
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Ryan, extremism and disinformation expert, joins Bridget to talk about how disinformation and conspiracy theories led to the riots at the Capi...
Introducing: Disinformed
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the heels of the insurrection at the Capitol, There Are No Girls on the Internet introduces Disinformed, a new series chronicling how the spread of...
BONUS: Esports is for Everyone
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who doesn't love video games? We all play them, yet women and communities of color can be shut out of the business end of this increasingly lucrative ...
Preserving our Voices with Jocelyn Robinson
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a shame to think about audio of some of the most influential civil rights leaders collecting dust in a basement somewhere. Preservationist and ...
We Won’t Forget Lynika Strozier
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lynika Strozier was a promising scientist who died of COVID at age 35. Her friend and colleague Dr. Corrie Moreau remembers her friend and talks about...
Native People Are #NotYourMascot
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why is Washington DC's professional football team changing their offensive name? In part because of people like Jacqueline Keeler, who helped create t...
The Black Women Fighting Climate Injustice
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist turned climate activist. Here's why she has hope for the future. Get Dr. Johnson's book: https://w...
BONUS: Behind the Netflix Cuties Controversy
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a quick rundown of the controversy behind Netflix's new film Cuties.The Netflix Movie "Cuties" Has Become The Latest Target Of #SaveTheChildren...
Why We're All Burnt Out
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a little different than the usual ones. Bridget is feeling out of sorts and is joined by Anne Helen Peterson, author of Can't Even: Ho...
Don't Have a Wedding on a Plantation
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jade Magnus Ogunnaike from the Color of Change explains their work to get major wedding websites like Zola and Pinterest to change how they deal with ...
She built a movement to take on Breitbart. Now she's finding her voice.
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nandini Jammi co founded Sleeping Giants, one of the most influential activist campaigns of the Trump era. But she was almost completely left out ...
Missy Elliott: Digital Innovator
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Let's take a little break from the depressing newscycle and talk about the iconic Missy Elliott and how she's been changing the digital game since the...
Big Tech and Their Responses to Black Lives Matter
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everything feels awful right now, but it's not all doom and gloom. Employees at big tech companies like Facebook are pushing platforms to be better an...
BONUS: Aaron Coleman and minimizing revenge porn
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode we spoke to attorney Carrie Goldberg about her fight against revenge porn. In that ep, we briefly mentioned Aaron Coleman, th...
Building a Better Internet with Carrie Goldberg
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When an abusive ex threatened to ruin Carrie Goldberg’s life, she needed a lawyer who specialized in revenge porn. Only one didn’t exist. So Carri...
Going Boldly with Blair Imani
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Historian, activist, and author Blair Imani caused a stir with her Islamicized Star Trek cosplay. She explains how Star Trek helped her live long and ...
BONUS: Why TANGOTI?
15 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After 1 month of TANGOTI, we're doing a bonus interview with host Bridget Todd about why she created this podcast and what's next. Learn more about y...
What Vanessa Guillén Can Tell Us About Disinformation
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After Vanessa Guillén's tragic death, her story was used to fuel disinformation and hate online Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.ihea...
How The Matrix Explains a Trans Experience
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff talks about the 1999 film The Matrix as an allegory for the trans experience. Donate to House of Tulip: https://www.gofundme...
Talia Jane vs Yelp
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After Talia Jane called out Yelp for failing to pay a living wage, she became the "entitled millennial" poster child. But she was actually right.Read ...
#DisabledandCute
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Keah Brown created the #DisabledAndCute movement to celebrate how people with disabilities love their bodies. She talks about the ways disabili...
Tune Into: Disabled and Cute
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Bridget as she talks to writer and digital activist Keah Brown who created a hashtag that celebrates people with disabilities. #DisabledAndCuteEa...
How Black Women Tried to Save Twitter
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After Shafiqah Hudson uncovered bad actors pretending to be Black women on Twitter, spreading disinformation and discord, she sounded the alarm to Twi...
Tune Into: How Black Women Tried to Save Twitter
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join the conversation with Bridget and Shafiqah Hudson as she explains how she outed an army of bots pretending to be Black women on Twitter.Each and ...
BlackOutDay2020
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
July 7th is Blackout Day 2020, an initiative meant to protest police brutality and racial injustice. Here’s the complicated story behind the origina...
Jeffrery Epstein, MIT and the Grad Student Who Spoke Up
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You might know that connections to convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein led to the resignation of the director of the MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito, after ...
How Women Built the Internet
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Evans is one half of the band Yacht. She’s also a tech historian who archives women’s contributions in tech and computing in her book Broad...
Introducing: There Are No Girls on the Internet
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marginalized voices have always been at the forefront of the internet, yet our stories often go overlooked. Bridget Todd chronicles our experiences ...