Instagram suppresses Palestinians; Don’t use AI to write your closing argument in court!; Elon Musk gets fined; Using VR to help people who hoard — NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Last week, we looked at how Twitter is creating more chaos in the Israel / Palestine conflict. Now, a look into how things are going on Instagram (not great!): https://www.404media.co/instagram-palestinian-arabic-bio-translation/

Why I'm not expecting my friends to make social media posts about Israel: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/israel-hamas-conflict-social-media-pressure-rcna119596

A far-right Twitter troll was sentenced to seven months in prison for his 2016 election tweets: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/19/23923733/douglass-mackey-twitter-troll-2016-election-voting-conspiracy

Former Fugees rapper Pras is in a whole lot of very serious legal trouble. So why did his legal team use his trial to boost their AI platform? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/convicted-fugees-rapper-pras-michels-lawyer-used-ai-draft-bungled-clos-rcna120992

Elon Musk talked a big game on keeping child exploitation off Twitter...now he’s being fined for doing such a bad job of it: https://apnews.com/article/twitter-esafety-fine-child-sexual-exploitation-feb129047a29eca1f950e815484f08b2

VR might help people with hoarding disorder: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/10/vr-hoarding-disorder.html

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0:00.0	There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.
0:12.2	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:17.4	Joey, thank you so much for being here. It has been a whirlwind week. Honestly, there are not many
0:24.5	people that I would rather get into all of this with than you. I feel like you really bring such an
0:30.5	expertise and a particular background that I really appreciate. So I'm kind of as hard as things I've been,
0:39.3	I feel grateful that I get to help myself understand what's going on with you.
0:46.3	Thank you, Bridget. It's been a week. It's been a wild two weeks. And, you know, we talked a bit before this recording and it is it is rough it is
0:59.5	rough we are witnessing horrific events on a daily basis just through our phones and having to
1:10.3	grapple with that and grapple with, you know, a lot of very,
1:15.9	I hate calling it complicated political realities because I feel like calling it complicated,
1:19.9	quote unquote, has been used a lot to kind of divert attention away from the issue.
1:23.5	But also, yes, very common.
1:25.3	And a lot of very complicated and at the same time,
1:30.0	very real and very horrific realities for, you know, people living in Gaza and living in
1:37.2	Israel, Palestine. I think I've talked before on this podcast. I am Jewish. I, anti-Zionism is a fundamental part of my Jewish identity.
1:48.7	What is happening to the Palestinian people right now is horrifying. What has been happening is
1:53.0	horrifying. And I, you know, I think just trying to sift through all of the information
2:00.2	that we're being presented with is a lot. It is a lot to go through. I think just trying to sift through all of the information that we're being presented with
2:01.7	is a lot. It is a lot to go through. I think like our brains are not meant to have to deal with
2:07.6	that amount of information on the daily. That being said, you know, I really, I hope that somehow
2:15.2	further deaths and destruction can be preventable. And there's a lot of
2:21.3	terrible, terrifying possibilities that are, I think, on the horizon. And we're just going to
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