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There Are No Girls on the Internet

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

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Technology, Society & Culture

4.1906 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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 hawked by Gwen Stefani: https://mashable.com/article/hallow-prayer-app-gewn-stefani-jd-vance-peter-thiel 

Elon Musk's Grok doxes adult performer on X: https://www.404media.co/grok-doxing-real-names-birthdates-siri-dahl/ 

Sleazy facial recognition app unmasks cam girls and sells their images: https://www.404media.co/underground-facial-recognition-tool-unmasks-camgirls/ 

New UK law requires platforms to remove deepfake nudes and revenge porn within 48 hours: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/18/tech-firms-must-remove-revenge-porn-in-48-hours-or-risk-being-blocked-says-starmer 

The two DOGE bros in charge of cutting National Endowment for the Humanities grants literally just asked ChatGPT what to do: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/doge-bros-grant-review-process-was-literally-just-asking-chatgpt-is-this-dei/ 

US civil rights agency sues Coca-Cola distributor for excluding men from casino work trip: https://apnews.com/article/dei-coca-cola-eeoc-lawsuit-andrea-lucas-867fd98ec6d05ab52e7e0a3711e9d492

White Men Learn the Hidden Cost of Suing for Discrimination: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/social-justice/white-men-learn-the-hidden-cost-of-suing-for-discrimination 

A WIN FOR DEMOCRACY: Trump admin rescinds rule banning discussion of DEI in schools after losing court ruling. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/department-of-education-backs-down-on-unlawful-directive-targeting-educational-equity 

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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.

0:17.5

Yeah, this is just like the banter between Chris Pratt and Mark Wahlberg on the Hello app.

0:23.5

The Hallow app is wild to me.

0:26.6

So it is a prayer app where celebrities like Mark Wahlberg, like Chris Pratt is the newest one this week, Gwen Stefani, are basically hawking.

0:39.8

It is a prayer app for Catholics. I knew about Gwen Stefani because I had seen that a while ago. I did not know about Mark

0:45.8

Wahlberg, although that totally tracks. Is he also a celebrity affiliated with this Catholic

0:51.1

prayer app? He's in there. Yeah. He's actually a major investor and partner.

0:56.5

Oh, that makes so much sense.

0:58.1

I was actually watching, for some reason, him on the View on Wednesday morning, which

1:02.9

was Ash Wednesday.

1:04.3

Obviously, he had to book an interview to talk about any random thing just to show off

1:09.7

his ashes.

1:12.7

I went to Catholic school. I have had my fair share of Ash Wednesday ashes smudged on my forehead. Back when I would get it, it would just

1:19.4

be like a little smudge that would be gone, you would get it during Mass and it would be gone by

1:24.1

lunchtime. Mark Wahlberg's ashes look like somebody put grease paint on his

1:29.7

forehead. I think that they're doing the ashes more intense so that notable Catholics can go on TV

1:36.0

and have their faith be this big, large badge on their forehead. I think he booked an interview

1:43.0

to talk about any random thing

1:44.5

just so that he would have an opportunity to show up these ashes. So yeah, not surprising that

1:49.1

Mark Wahlberg is pulling out the big guns to promote the Hallow app. I was curious. So I

1:54.3

created an account, logged in, and it was a pretty long onboarding. They asked me a bunch

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