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There Are No Girls on the Internet

Marginalized voices have always been at the forefront of the internet, yet our stories often go overlooked. Bridget Todd chronicles our experiences online, and the ways marginalized voices have shaped the internet from the very beginning. We need monuments to all of the identities that make being online what it is. So let’s build them.

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62:54

Charlie Kirk Snitch App Data Leak; TikTok Rapture;...

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2025/09/26

App for outing people who were insufficiently mournful of Charlie Kirk critics leaked its own users’ personal data through security blunders:https://san.com/cc/app-for-outing-charlie-kirks-critics-leaked-its-users-personal-data/ Meta is using parents’ back-to-school photos of their girls to advertise Threads to grown men: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of

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56:00

Karen Attiah, last Black columnist at Washington...

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2025/09/24

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, the Trump Administration and their collaborators are prosecuting a widespread crackdown on free expression. Karen Attiah has been a columnist at the Washington Post for 11 years, and was the last remaining Black columnist at the newspaper until last week. She was fired, allegedly for being insufficiently mournful over murdered racist Charlie Kirk, but at this point her firing seems less about what she actually said and more about sending a message: dissent

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54:51

Jimmy Kimmel Fired by Disney; Karen Attiah Fired from...

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2025/09/19

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 with their willingness to threaten critics and trample First Amendment values. But these authoritarians will fail. Bridget is joined by L. Joy Williams, president of the New York NAACP and host Sunday Civics on Sirius XM and wherever you get your podcasts, to recap the latest developments in our slide towards autocracy. Jimmy Kimmel was fired to protect

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54:49

Love Island Fandoms Get Dark ; Kristi Noem Writes the...

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2025/09/16

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 Ashley Ray, host of Courier's smart podcast "TV I Say." CBS just keeps caving harder and harder to appease the Trump administration. https://newrepublic.com/article/199889/kristi-noem-attack-cbs-kilmar-garcia-trump-scam Creator of porn site "Girls Do Porn" sentenced to 27 years for sex trafficking.

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35:57

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Is Being Rewritten. Remember...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/09/13

Charlie Kirk built his career by debating students and spreading rhetoric that was too often dismissed as “spirited debate.” Now, in the wake of his death, politicians and media outlets are rushing to rewrite his legacy. In this episode, Bridget digs into what Kirk really stood for, why his words mattered, and why violence doesn’t erase bigotry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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58:49

The Dark Money Scandal Rocking Democratic Influencers

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2025/09/10

Last week in Wired, Taylor Lorenz published an exposé on Chorus, a new force in Democratic politics that is funding Democratic influencers. Her piece has sparked major controversy among political influencers and their observers online. In this episode, Bridget breaks down what the article reveals (and what it leaves out), and explores what this fight says about money, power, and trust in American democracy. Read the full piece here:

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65:44

Joe Rogan falls for AI deepfake; Elon Musk ignores...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/09/06

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 our platform!" is the theme of today's episode. AI deepfake comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah Meta creates flirty celebrity chatbots without permission, calls it "parody," trains them to talk to children romantically.https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/

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61:17

Debunking “Trans Terror” Moral Panic After the...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/09/02

Rightwing media often spread the myth that trans people are violent or dangerous — a false narrative with zero evidence. These “trans terror” stories persist online and in the news, fueling real-world harm against the trans community. In this episode, Bridget and producer Joey Patt unpack the origins of these myths, explain why they stick, and show how the false idea of “trans terror” makes everyone less safe. A Trans Pilot Was Falsely Blamed for a Plane Crash. Now

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66:54

Will Smith's AI Fans; ICE hides deportation flights...

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2025/08/29

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 how media shapes power. TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers:https://www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-sells-viral-gps-trackers-marketed-to-stalkers/ ICE Is Using Taylor Swift’s Loophole To Hide Deportation Flights: https://archive.ph/dPDqw#selection-701.0-704.0 Grand jury declines to indict man who threw a sandwich at federal

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52:01

The Internet Wasn’t Always Run by Villains. Anil Dash...

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2025/08/26

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, just as long as they get a little richer. We hear them everywhere— their bad ideas, their grievances are all amplified. Anil Dash, one of the internet’s earliest voices, says it didn’t used to be this way. He's been a highly visible and impactful techie, writer, and entrepreneur for decades. In this thoughtful, wide-ranging, and

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88:18

Kendall Jenner inspired Meta chatbot lures a man to...

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2025/08/23

Bridget is joined in this week's news roundup by tech journalist Dexter Thomas, prolific writer, videographer, and host of the excellent podcast "Kill Switch". Dex recently wrote a piece in Wired about anime girl VTubers selling out concerts, and how the question of whether they're "real" depends on kayfabe and who you ask:https://www.wired.com/story/anime-girl-vtubers-are-selling-out-concerts-but-are-they-real-depends-on-who-you-ask/ In addition to listening to Kill Sitch, you can follow him on

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92:47

We Watched Amazon Prime’s War of the Worlds So You...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/08/20

Bridget and Producer Mike are taking a break from the dystopian surveillance nightmare unfolding in their city of Washington, DC, to review Amazon's new War of the Worlds movie. It stars Ice Cube and is about a dystopian surveillance nightmare that unfolds in Washington, DC. Art imitates life! This movie is terrible, but it does raise questions like, "Is this even a movie?" It's also 90 minutes of nonstop propaganda for Amazon and surveillance technology. We had fun doing this! Let us know in

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44:55

Introducing podcast “Long Shadow: Breaking the...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/08/17

We're excited to share the first episode of Peabody Award-nominated podcast Long Shadow’s new season, Breaking the Internet. Hosted by Pulitzer Prize finalist and historian Garrett Graff, Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet charts the evolution of the internet – from the optimistic days of the dot-com boom to our present moment. Produced by Long Lead and distributed by PRX, this seven-part series aims to tell the story of humanity's greatest invention, and how it's led us to the biggest

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42:32

Trump's DC Takeover is About White Supremacy, Not...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/08/15

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 and has lived here most of her life. The situation is still unfolding, but Bridget breaks down what's happening, what decades of DC history say about how we got here, and why people on both the right and the left are talking about it wrong. If you’re listening on Spotify, you can leave a comment there or email us at hello@tangoti.com! Follow

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70:41

People are in Love with AI. The ChatGPT-5 Launch and...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/08/13

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 turn when she introduced her ChatGPT “therapist” she calls Henry. More people than you might think are forming social relationships with chatbots, some of them romantic and even sexual. When OpenAI released their new ChatGPT-5 model last week, replacing the older ChatGPT-4o model, many users felt like a loved one had been taken away from

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71:08

AOC and Taylor Swift AI Deepfakes; TeaOnHer App;...

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2025/08/08

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, powerful things to say about the sexist crypto bros who threw dildos at WNBA players as a publicity stunt for their new meme coin. It's less than a minute and worth a listen: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1mkdusa/lynx_coach_cheryl_reeve_livid_over_sex_toy/ Disgraced journalist Chris Cuomo fell for an obvious AOC deepfake video about Sydney

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37:55

Epstein was connected to power. What happened when...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/08/05

Everyone is asking questions about Trump’s connections to Jefferey Epstein, but the president isn’t the only powerful person or institution linked to him. 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 a Ronan Farrow exposé. But fewer people know that Arwa Mboya, an MIT student and Kenyan virtual reality programmer, bravely called for Ito to step down before Farrow’s piece

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70:38

Sydney Sweeney's jeans; Jet2 Holiday meme hijacked by...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/08/01

This week Bridget recaps the tech stories you might have missed with longtime friend of the show indispensable Internet advocate Abbie Richards. She is the Steve Martin of TANGOTI. If you're not following Abbie on TikTok you're missing out! www.tiktok.com/@tofology US labor hero and friend of the show Chris Smalls, co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union, was beaten and choked by IDF soldiers while trying to deliver aid to Gaza.

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36:31

Tea App Didn’t Just Spill Data; It Endangered Women

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/07/29

The Tea App promised a safe, anonymous space for women to share personal experiences with men they dated. Instead, it leaked their private data. There’s tons of inaccurate, fear mongering information about the leak out there. So in this episode, we’ll break down what happened with the Tea App leak, why it matters, and what it reveals about tech’s ongoing failure to take women’s privacy seriously. A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating:

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74:15

Candace Owens sued by French President; Mehdi Hasan...

There Are No Girls on the Internet ·

2025/07/25

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. LISTEN TO DOPE LABS! https://www.dopelabspodcast.com/ FOLLOW DR. TITI SHODIYA:https://www.instagram.com/dr_tsho/ Debate-style video roils internet after participant openly identifies as fascist: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/jubilee-debate-video-fascist-participant-roils-internet-rcna220303 Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte Macron sue right-wing podcaster

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