There Are No Girls on the Internet
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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 on...
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Ashley St. Clair Apologized. Elon Musk Threatened to Take Her Kid
Right-wing influencer Ashley St. Clair has a long history of transphobic behavior, including authoring a children’s book promoting those views. When s...
Elon is Lying About Fixing Grok; Renee Good’s Killer Has a Rulebreaking GoFundMe; Tea App Wants Another Chance – NEWS ROUNDUP!
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 noncons...
Amy Poehler's Golden Globe Win | Renee Good Lies Debunked | DoorDash Hoax Exposed - NEWS ROUNDUP
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
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
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
You asked and we answered! In this first installment of our first ever listener mail episode, the TANGOTI team reads your emails!
Thanks to ever...
Women Use AI Less Than Men at Work. Is That a Bad Thing?
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.
Bridget takes a...
Why We’re Fighting About Self Checkout – Best of TANGOTI
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.
After Diddy’s acquittal, social media decided it needed a villain. And who better than a random woman?! Through a case of mistaken identity, digital m...
Karoline Leavit’s lip filler in Vanity Fair; Man Arrested for Charlie Kirk Meme; Heated Rivalry; WaPo AI slop – NEWS ROUNDUP
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 Whit...
Bot Campaigns Turned Taylor Swift Into a Nazi and Cracker Barrel Into a Culture War
If you’ve ever looked at your timeline and thought “there’s no way this is real,” you’re probably right.
In this episode, Bridget and Mike spea...
Was the Taylor Swift ‘Nazi’ Controversy A Coordinated Bot Attack? EMERGENCY EPISODE!
Did you see the narrative claiming Taylor Swift is a secret “trad wife Nazi” take off across social media? In this emergency episode, we break down a...
This Univ. of Oklahoma Essay is So Bad It Launched a Culture-War Career
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!
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
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 forme...
Why aren’t people boycotting Amazon like they’re boycotting Target?
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
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 and stick w...
Meg Thee Stallion fights deepfakes; Wicked's weird press; Welder’s murder highlights dangers for tradeswomen; AI fetish bear – NEWS ROUNDUP!
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...
Andrew Tate is facing sex trafficking charges. He’s getting help from the White House
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
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
Birth control is the latest battleground in a wave of online misinformation targeting young women — and doctors and reproductive health advocates are...
Stickergate Drama on Threads; Teen Vogue Layoffs; ChatGPT Suicide Lawsuit; Meta’s ad scam; DC Sandwich Verdict – NEWS ROUNDUP
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.com/i...
From Teen Vogue to Tech, 300K Jobless Black Women are a Warning for Everyone
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 left thei...
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!
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
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!
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...
Can BlackSky Fix What Twitter Broke Using Bluesky Tech?
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
Welcome to the weekly News Roundup! Bridget recaps the week's tech stories that you might have missed.
Pop superstar apparently pulls controvers...
Is Taylor Swift a Trad Wife? The Internet Thinks So (w/ Jo Piazza)
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: Is Ta...
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!
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 Internet...
Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You Talking About Abortion on Instagram
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is all about free speech, just not when it comes to abortion.
New reports from the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
Elon boycotts Netflix; Ted Cruz Hates Privacy; Kash Patel Calls ADL Terrorists; Extremism is Bad for Marriage; RIP AOL – NEWS ROUNDUP!
Transgender for everybody! Everything is computer! We’re in a silly, tangent filled mood for this one!
Every week Bridget recaps the tech...
Tylenol Autism Claims are Harming Women While Wellness Grifters Profit
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
App for outing people who were insufficiently mournful of Charlie Kirk critics leaked its own users’ personal data through security blunders: https://...
Karen Attiah, last Black columnist at Washington Post, fired for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, the Trump Administration and their collaborators are prosecuting a widespread crackdown on free expression. Kare...
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
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
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.
Charlie Kirk built his career by debating students and spreading rhetoric that was too often dismissed as “spirited debate.”
Now, in the wake o...
The Dark Money Scandal Rocking Democratic Influencers
Last week in Wired, Taylor Lorenz published an exposé on Chorus, a new force in Democratic politics that is funding Democratic influencers. Her piece...
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!
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...