Mark Zuckerberg's AI Era Has a Woman Problem. It Always Did.
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In 2026, Meta is racing into AI with all gas and no brakes — and it's giving us serious déjà vu. We invited Samantha and Anney from Stuff Mom Never Told You to revisit The Social Network and examine what the film got right, what it glossed over, and how its treatment of women tells you everything you need to know about tech culture then and now. Plus: the reported sequel centered on Frances Haugen's findings inside Facebook, and why that story might be the one that actually matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.1 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and UnBossed Creative. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:21.7 | It's 2026 and Facebook is back in the discourse. |
| 0:25.9 | This time, because Meta is throwing everything it's got into AI. |
| 0:30.3 | New products, new models. |
| 0:32.5 | Full speed ahead, no brakes. |
| 0:34.6 | And if this sounds a little bit familiar, it should. |
| 0:48.1 | Because the story of how Mark Zuckerberg got here and who got left behind, erased, or just plain lied about along the way, well, that's a story that hasn't really changed much. |
| 0:55.3 | I sat down with my friends, Samantha and Annie, from the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You, to revisit a movie that we like talking about a lot, the social network, a film that somehow just keeps getting more |
| 1:01.2 | relevant. We're digging into what that movie has to say about the misogyny, baked into the |
| 1:06.9 | founding myth of one of the internet's most powerful companies. And also, looking ahead to the sequel, |
| 1:13.1 | centered on whistleblower Francis Hougain's findings about how Facebook knowingly harmed women and girls. |
| 1:19.5 | So on the one hand, it's a conversation about a film that came out over 15 years ago. |
| 1:24.5 | But on the other, it's also kind of a movie about everything happening right now. |
| 1:35.3 | We didn't anticipate when this episode was going to come out. You know, we've been hinting at it for a long time. |
| 1:44.0 | But it is coming out at a time where I think we need to take a fun break. |
| 1:48.8 | I think a lot of people need that kind of fun break right now. |
| 1:52.7 | I would say it is a fun break, but at the same time, like, we're still going to talk about issues. |
| 1:57.2 | That was way too. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm like, yeah, I think of some things. |
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