New Taylor Swift conspiracy drops online; IRL violence from misinformation in Dublin; TikTok makes you 17% more antisemetic? Not quite, Nikki Haley – NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

To skip the banter and get straight to the news, skip to 00:04:20

VOTE FOR THE IRL PODCAST TO WIN AN ANTHEM AWARD: TANGOTI.COM/IRL

During this week’s GOP debate, Nikki Haley dropped a curious stat about TikTok making users 17% more antisemitic every 30 minutes, but is that even true? Here’s the original analysis by Goldbloom but (A) Haley misstated the findings, and (B) this study wasn’t peer reviewed or published, so buyer beware: https://twitter.com/antgoldbloom/status/1730255552738201854

Meta and TikTok explain their differing responses to Dublin riots and misinformation: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/dublin-micheal-martin-meta-tiktok-elon-musk-b2459512.html

Taylor Swift is Time’s Person of the Year and far right grifters are dropping conspiracies about why.

‘What’s happening is not organic’: Why the right thinks Taylor Swift is a government PsyOp designed to swing the 2024 election: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/taylor-swift-psyop-conspiracy-theory-2024-election/

Amazon sued for selling gross spy cams. Judge: Amazon “cannot claim shock” that bathroom spycams were used as advertised: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/amazon-faces-trial-after-selling-bathroom-spycam-used-to-abuse-minor/

Listen to Joey’s Afterlives podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-afterlives-the-layleen-po-127683074/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, Bridget here. The other podcast that I make with Mozilla about AI called IRL was nominated for an Anthem Award. It would mean so much to me if you could take just a few seconds and vote for IRL to win. Just go to tangoody.com slash IRL or use the link in our show notes. You can vote until December 21st. Thank you so much.
0:21.3	It means a lot.
0:26.5	There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.
0:34.5	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:39.8	I am here with my producer, Joey.
0:41.7	Joey, it's nice to see you back. We missed you.
0:43.9	Hi, it's nice to see you too.
0:46.3	So as y'all know, we are trying to start every episode with a little bit of light banter to sort of ease us into the episode.
0:53.3	I tried my hardest to do it last week.
0:57.0	I think we did a good job. Yeah, banter was had. A listener Susan actually emailed us with a
1:03.5	great banter suggestion of using the time to sort of get to know our producers because we hear
1:08.9	from Joey, we hear from Mike.
1:14.0	Listeners don't necessarily know who these folks are, even though I feel like, you know,
1:16.5	I'm talking to them all the time.
1:21.1	So to do that, let's play a little bit of my favorite game, Would You Rather?
1:23.0	Would You Rather is one of my favorite games.
1:24.8	I play it endlessly on car trips.
1:25.8	I've annoyed all my friends.
1:27.3	I'll text, Would You Rather's?
1:34.5	Okay. Would you rather be able to use the internet only for 20 minutes every day? Or you can use it like normal, but your boss gets a detailed report of everything you did online every day.
1:41.4	Oh my God. I got gotta think about that
1:45.6	now I'm like what do I do on the internet
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.