Reese Witherspoon AI Gender Gap; Lauren Sanchez Cosplays Relevance; Online Assault Academy; Flock Spying; Nigerian WhatsApp Smut – NEWS ROUNDUP
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 65 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. TRIGGER WARNING - one story discusses disturbing sexual assaults.
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Reese Witherspoon thinks women should embrace AI more. The comments were not kind. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXKphAtkbgW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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Gisèle Pelicot's story of being drugged and raped by her husband and other men for a decade captured headlines. A new CNN investigation reveals a large ecosystem of men helping each other commit similar crimes around the world with something like an "online rape academy." https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html
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Lauren Sanchez Besos is a cultural force, revolutionizing the way Americans live, and inspiring everyone with her embrace of joy and her perfect marriage to Jeff Bezos. Right? RIGHT?! (wrong) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/business/lauren-sanchez-bezos-jeff-bezos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.blA.i7qg.dQZ7G1_RUIcF&smid=url-share [gift link]
Anti-Occupy Wall Street Champagne Toast Later Today? https://gothamist.com/news/anti-occupy-wall-street-champagne-toast-later-today
Rich people watching Occupy protestor: https://www.threads.com/@yungbooks/post/DEEOKfUOXkA
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Workers at surveillance company Flock inexplicably accessed cameras in a gymnasium and pool, prompting the city of Dunwoody, Georgia, to delay their contract renewal after a citizen's open records request revealed anomolies in the logs. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/06/flock-cameras-privacy-concerns
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Why Are Flock Employees Watching Our Children? https://jasonhunyar.substack.com/p/why-are-flock-employees-watching-720
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Women in northern Nigeria have been writing steamy romance books for decades. They are fighting morality censorship by innovating new models of distribution and monetization on WhatsApp. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/love-is-universal-but-nigerias-romance-lit-market-is-one-of-a-kind and https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/africa/nigeria-erotica-writers-censors.html
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Here are more stories we were watching this week:
NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/naacp-lawsuit-elon-musk-xai-memphis
A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury: https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/
What is dynamic pricing at grocery stores? Maryland now bans it: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2026/04/15/maryland-bans-dynamic-pricing-practice-popular-among-retailers/89621751007/
Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.” https://theintercept.com/2026/04/14/facebook-instagram-antifa-censor/
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| 0:30.8 | There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:46.5 | Welcome to There No Girls on the Internet, where we explore the intersection of technology, identity, and social media. |
| 0:51.9 | And this is another installment of our weekly news roundup, where we dig into the stories |
| 0:55.7 | that you might have missed on the internet so you don't have to. |
| 0:58.6 | I got to start with a little bit of heartbreak here because, Mike, I know you know this about |
| 1:03.8 | me. |
| 1:04.5 | I love me some Reese Witherspoon. |
| 1:06.5 | She's my girl. |
| 1:08.1 | I like her a lot. |
| 1:09.5 | We all love Reese Witherspoon. She's just so nice I like her a lot. We all love Rees Witherspoon. |
| 1:11.1 | She's just so nice. |
| 1:13.4 | You know how you, I don't know if the white community is the same way, |
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