BAFTAs racial slur; Nicki Minaj bot network; TikTok “Psychic” faces Defamation trial for University of Idaho murders – NEWS ROUNDUP!
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed.
Black History Month: Every time you drop a reaction GIF, thank Lisa Gelobter. She helped engineer the animation tech that made GIFs GIF. https://legacy.anitab.org/profile/lisa-gelobter/
Google apologizes after news alert about BAFTAs included a racial slur: https://deadline.com/2026/02/google-apologizes-bafta-ai-news-alet-n-word-1236734448/
Warner Brothers requested the slur be edited out from the BAFTAs broadcast: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/24/sinners-studio-reportedly-raised-n-word-use-with-bafta-immediately-during-ceremony-and-requested-removal
The man with tourettes who shouted the slur questions the wisdom of putting a microphone in front of his seat: https://people.com/john-davidson-baftas-tourettes-incident-questions-seated-near-microphone-11913879
TikTok psychic in Idaho: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/article314779034.html
Meta’s plans for AI facial recognition in smart glasses ‘threatens safety of all women and girls’: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/meta-glasses-facial-recognition-domestic-abuse-b2923551.html
Nicki Minaj's social posts are being amplified by a bot network: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/23/the-bots-powering-nicki-minajs-maga-war-00771317
Kansas revokes drivers licenses for trans people: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth demands Anthropic allow its AI be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/24/pentagon-demands-ai-access/
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| 0:00.0 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and UnBossed Creative. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:18.3 | I have been so deep into this story out of the BAFTAs. |
| 0:23.4 | Mike, have you been following this? |
| 0:25.0 | I admit that I was not until you brought it to my attention. |
| 0:28.3 | And then it's been like a pretty steady stream of updates from you. |
| 0:34.3 | And the BAFTAs are not something that I've ever paid attention to in the past, |
| 0:38.6 | but this story, like, it has gotten to me. And so, yeah, I am now following this pretty closely. |
| 0:47.2 | I feel you're underselling how much I have been updating you on a story that you were like, |
| 0:53.4 | I didn't see it. I'm not really familiar with |
| 0:55.5 | what you're talking about. I just came back from on-air festival in New York, which is a podcast |
| 1:00.5 | conference. And as you and I were tech had been texting previously before my flight about the |
| 1:07.2 | show and the plan for the show while I was traveling. My fight was very early in the |
| 1:11.3 | morning. I'm in the plane on the tarmac at like 5.30 in the morning. And right before we take off, |
| 1:18.3 | I text to you, BAFTA's update. The president of the BAFTAs is Prince William. |
| 1:24.8 | Like, how deep does this thing go? At a certain point, I just had to like get on board, right? |
| 1:31.2 | Like the updates were going to keep coming. So, yeah, so I just like got on board. And it's, |
| 1:36.4 | it's like quite a story. So for folks who missed it somehow, John Davidson is a Scottish Tourette |
| 1:43.0 | syndrome activist and the real life inspiration for this movie, I Swear. |
| 1:47.3 | I swear is this movie that is a fictionalized version of his real life experiences as somebody with Tourette's. |
| 1:55.1 | He was there at the Baftas, which you can sort of think of as like the British Oscars to celebrate this film. |
| 2:01.2 | Davidson has a particular type of Tourette's called Coprolalia, |
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