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There Are No Girls on the Internet

Karoline Leavit’s lip filler in Vanity Fair; Man Arrested for Charlie Kirk Meme; Heated Rivalry; WaPo AI slop – NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

iHeartPodcasts

Technology, Society & Culture

4.1906 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Bridget and Producer Mike cover the week's tech news that you might have missed in this final News Roundup of 2025.

Vanity Fair Goes to the White House, takes some unflattering photos https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/vanity-fair-goes-to-the-white-house-trump-2-edition

Washington Post releases an AI-generated podcast. It's filled with errors and hallucinations. https://www.semafor.com/article/12/11/2025/washington-posts-ai-generated-podcasts-rife-with-errors-fictional-quotes

Meta arbitrarily shuts down hundreds of accounts over reproductive and queer content. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content 

Tennessee man jailed for 37 days for refusing to take down a Facebook post critical of Trump in the days after Charlie Kirk's assassination. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2025/09/23/tennessee-larry-bushart-arrest-charlie-kirk/86313013007/

Bridget loves the new Netflix show Heated Rivalry, which bucks the trend of "casual viewing" in streaming. hfilm.com/2043077/canada-heated-rivalry-destroys-worst-trend-american-streaming-tv/

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0:38.3

There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

0:46.4

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:52.0

Welcome to There Are No Girls on the Internet, where we explore the intersection of technology, social media, and identity.

0:58.2

And this is another installment of our weekly news roundup, where we dig into all the stories that you might have missed on the Internet, so you don't have to.

1:05.9

I cannot wait to talk to you about that Vanity Fair article and spread.

1:13.4

All I can really say is woof.

1:14.4

Let's talk about it.

1:16.1

First of all, did you see it?

1:19.9

Did you see the Vanity Fair spread and accompanying article?

1:21.2

I did. And I was blown away by both of them.

1:25.7

The article and the stuff that Susie Wiles was saying was wild.

1:30.4

I don't know how that happened.

1:33.2

And then also, like seemingly separately, those photos were also,

1:38.6

I don't even know what the adjective is.

1:42.5

Like, disturbing, I guess. I can't even know what the adjective is. Like, disturbing, I guess.

1:45.7

I can't imagine that any of the subjects of those photos were happy with what they saw.

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