Erika Kirk Druski Parody; Chappell Roan's Bot Army; Meta Loses in Court; & OpenAI Kills Sora – News Roundup
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike are covering the tech news stories you might have missed.
Chappell Roan bodyguard controversy fueled by bots online, research finds: https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/news/chappell-roan-bodyguard-backlash-bots-b2947029.html
An AI-generated woman in images with President Trump has been going viral on conservative social media: https://wapo.st/3NtfbUi
Meta and YouTube lose two landmark court cases about harm to users:
. . California woman sues Meta and YouTube https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technology/social-media-trial-verdict.html
.. New Mexico Attorney General sues Meta https://mashable.com/article/new-mexico-meta-court-case-meta-loses
Comedian Druski published a hilarious short video titled "How Conservative Women in America act" and MAGA is real mad: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1s48bw5/druski_parodies_erika_kirk_in_a_new_skit_how/
..Druski church parody: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/58hfPPHCRIU
..Druski NASCAR parody: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G32siPZXgx0
Barely six months after AI-video app Sora was released to much hype, OpenAI announced they are shutting it down:
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-disney-1236698277/
. . Listen to Bridget predict Sora's demise back when it was announced, in our episode from Oct 10, 2025: https://app.omnystudio.com/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/programs/ad016d13-045e-48f3-9aa5-ae280172b27d/clips/66368931-ff00-467b-97fe-b3730017b21b/details
. . Some of Sora's main use cases are filling the internet with racist and misogynistic slop:
..Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood: https://www.404media.co/disneys-openai-sora-disaster-shows-ai-will-not-save-hollywood/
Black filmmaker Nina Lee asked audiences to watch an unrelated Black rom-com in theaters to help convince studios that Black films are viable. We support Black filmmakers, but in Bridget's opinion this way of thinking is a trap. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/you-me-tuscany-black-rom-coms_n_69c57cb8e4b0a6ee60c3dfa3/amp
Judge dismisses lawsuit by Musk's X Corp accusing advertisers of illegal boycott: https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-by-musks-x-corp-accusing-advertisers-illegal-boycott-2026-03-26/
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| 0:30.8 | There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:46.8 | I've brought it up on the show before, but I feel like you and I, Mike, live in and occupy very different social media internet spheres. Oftentimes, |
| 0:58.1 | I'll ask you, did you see so-and-so or did you see such and such online? And I'm asking |
| 1:03.0 | rhetorically because I already know the answer is no, you definitely didn't see that. But I will ask |
| 1:07.1 | you this rhetorically, even though I feel I know the answer. |
| 1:13.6 | Have you seen the latest Drusky skit? |
| 1:16.5 | I think this is more evidence that you're right. |
| 1:21.8 | We occupy different internets because I have not seen this skit. |
| 1:27.3 | Familiar with Erica Kirk, famed widow and alleged girlfriend of J.D. Vance. But I can't say that I'm |
| 1:30.3 | familiar with Druski or his, her, their skit with Erica Kirk. Okay. So Druski is this |
| 1:39.4 | comedian YouTuber. He's known for doing skits. He had this skit recently where he is a black |
| 1:48.3 | megachurch pastor who comes down from the sky in church. And as somebody who grew up in the black |
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