Dylan Mulvaney breaks returns to social media; debunking affirmative action myths; Canva’s Black hair backlash; Is ChatGPT stealing your data?; Google blocks Canadian news sites — NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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SCOTUS’ affirmative action ruling leaves us mad as hell; Dylan Mulvaney, the trans influencer targeted for extremist hate in the wake of a Bud Light brand partnership, returns to social media; Canva’s AI text to image tool labels Bantu knots “unsafe;” A new lawsuits says Open AI’s ChatGPT is taking all of our data; Google and Facebook threaten to go dark on Canadian news.

Facebook’s bans news in Australia is silencing activists: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/disinformed-facebooks-bans-news-in-australia-is-silencing/id1520715907?i=1000510047480

Google says it will start blocking Canadian news stories in response to new: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1185087587/google-says-it-will-start-blocking-canadian-news-stories-in-response-to-new-law

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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.
0:17.3	I'm here with my producer, Mike. Mike, how you doing today?
0:20.7	Doing pretty good. There's a lot of smoke in the air, but other than that, I'm here with my producer, Mike. Mike, how you doing today? Doing pretty good.
0:21.7	There's a lot of smoke in the air, but other than that, I'm doing pretty good.
0:25.8	Well, let's see if we can clear out some of that smoke with news stories that you may have missed this week on the Internet.
0:31.4	So we have to start with talking about the Supreme Court.
0:34.6	By now, you've probably seen that the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action, ruling that race can no longer play a part in college admissions. Notably, the decision
0:42.9	just applies to race. It does not apply to things like gender or legacy status or donor status
0:48.8	being considered in college admissions. So I thought, what better time than now to revisit
0:53.4	some of the myths about affirmative
0:54.9	action and break down some of the online chatter that I'm seeing and have seen about the issue?
1:00.1	So first, I think it's really easy to think that affirmative action has only helped black folks
1:05.8	like me, but that is not the case. In fact, that is actually not even a little bit true.
1:10.4	According to the United States Labor Department, that is actually not even a little bit true. According to the United
1:11.2	States Labor Department, the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action are white women. And because the
1:17.9	Supreme Court ruling only applies to race and not gender, that means that white women will
1:22.8	continue to benefit. What's weird is that despite being the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action,
1:28.9	white women are also more likely to be against affirmative action. This is according to a 2014
1:33.8	cooperative congressional election study that found that nearly 70% of the 20,694, self-identified,
1:41.6	non-Hispanic white women surveyed either somewhat or strongly opposed affirmative
1:46.3	action. So I've already seen a lot of people online saying that the reason why this happened
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