MrBeast Under Fire; Hailey Bieber Dogpile; “Emily Hart” and the AI MAGA scam – NEWS ROUNDUP
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed.
MrBeast’s Beast Industries Sued by Former Employee Alleging Sexual Harassment and Retaliation; Company Says Suit Is Based on ‘Categorically False Statements’: https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/mrbeast-sued-former-employee-sexual-harassment-retaliation-1236728069/
IG video from the plaintiff: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXcvv2xAfcw/
'I think we can all agree we owe Hailey Bieber an apology.' https://www.mamamia.com.au/hailey-bieber-apology/
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine/
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/
I Started the Media Men List My name is Moira Donegan: https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/moira-donegan-i-started-the-media-men-list.html
'The Comeback' Season 3 review: Lisa Kudrow warns us of the AI apocalypse: https://mashable.com/article/the-comeback-season-3-review-ai
Here’s a few other stories we’re watching:
OpenAI CEO Apologizes for Not Warning Authorities About Mass Shooting Suspect: https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-ceo-deeply-sorry-for-not-warning-authorities-about-mass-shooting
Elon Musk does not appear at hearing in French prosecutors’ X probe: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/musk-summoned-by-french-prosecutor-x-probe-unclear-if-he-will-comply-2026-04-20/Amazon employees say they were told to work as employee lay dead: https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/amazon-employees-forced-work-corpse/
App Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research Shows: https://www.404media.co/app-stores-apple-google-nudify-undress-deepfakes/
Forbes Prediction Market Gamifies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children: https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefies-story-about-mass-shooting-of-8-children/
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.2 | 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 | The producer, Mike, I hate it, hate, hate it when brands get involved on social media. |
| 0:28.7 | I don't like it when brands are being cute or voicy. |
| 0:32.8 | I can tolerate some of it. |
| 0:34.5 | Some of it's funny. |
| 0:35.2 | But I specifically loat that this sort of new thing |
| 0:39.9 | I've been seeing in the last few years where brands, their social media accounts, will |
| 0:44.9 | join in on hating on a woman celebrity that everybody has decided that they hate for one |
| 0:50.8 | reason or another. Have you ever seen that? Oh yeah. I think that's like a very popular genre of content hating on some celebrity women. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.9 | I mean, I just saw on Reddit that Haley Bieber, who is Justin Bieber's wife, |
| 1:06.6 | big caveat that I'm a little too old to know all the details about any of these people. |
| 1:12.6 | I vaguely am aware that they are people who exist in the zeitgeist. |
| 1:15.8 | So Haley Bieber, I saw on Reddit, had posted on Instagram that people were saying that she was |
| 1:22.2 | owed an apology from a few years ago when all of these brands joined in on dogpiling her. |
| 1:29.4 | And even though I don't really follow these people that closely, |
| 1:33.4 | I do remember that a few years ago, one day, it was like, |
| 1:38.6 | I woke up and duo lingo and sunny delight and all of these other big brands were basically posting on social media. |
| 1:46.5 | Actually, since you asked, we hate Haley Bieber. |
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