Taylor Swift vs AI Scams; Epstein friendship w Peter Thiel; Andrew Tate loses lawsuit - NEWS ROUNDUP
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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There Are No Girls on the Internet is an independent media company covering tech, power, and who gets left out.
We produce a weekly podcast, viral social content, and in-depth reporting on the tech stories that matter — especially the ones that don't get enough attention.
Host Bridget Todd and her producer Mike have been covering these issues for over decade. Bridget's forthcoming audiobook with Simon & Schuster, Love At First Prompt, explores AI, sex, and intimate relationships. Pre-order it at LoveAtFirstPrompt.ai.
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Here's everything we covered this week with links to the original reporting:
🔗 A man sued his female JPMorgan boss for sexual coercion. It went viral, AI harassment videos followed, and the lawsuit has since been pulled from court records. AI-generated videos recreating the allegations spread on X before anyone verified a single fact. More on the AI component here.
🔗 Taylor Swift is trademarking her own voice because AI scams are out of control Scammers are using AI-generated versions of celebrities to steal people's personal information — and the platforms aren't stopping it.
🔗 Cops are using Flock surveillance cameras to stalk their exes A new Institute for Justice report found at least 14 cases of police abusing license plate readers to track romantic interests.
🔗 A university destroyed an Asian American scientist's career in a racist federal witch hunt that found nothing Jane Wu's family is speaking out one year after her death and has filed a lawsuit against Northwestern. NBC News coverage here.
🔗 Men built a business turning women's Instagram photos into AI porn — and taught other men how to do it Three Arizona men sold a course teaching subscribers how to scrape and sexualize women's photos. Three women are now suing.
🔗 A new UN report found AI is making online violence against women dramatically worse Nearly a quarter of female journalists surveyed have been diagnosed with anxiety or depression because of it.
🔗 The Oscars just banned AI actors and AI-written scripts from winning awards The Academy's strongest stance yet on AI in film.
🔗 Andrew Tate sued Meta for banning him and lost A federal judge threw out his $50 million lawsuit. The First Amendment doesn't apply to private companies.
🔗 New reporting reveals how close Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein really were Private emails show Epstein was actively coaching Thiel on how to get embedded in Trump world.
🔗 A murder suspect allegedly used ChatGPT to research how to dispose of a body. OpenAI had no comment. Prosecutors allege he asked ChatGPT about disposing of a body three days before two doctoral students went missing.
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| 0:27.0 | special guest George Birch |
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| 0:38.8 | There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and UnBoss Creative. |
| 0:46.9 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:52.2 | You know how I know that this audience, these listeners, the people listening to my voice right now, |
| 0:59.0 | really get me and see me. Mike, do you want to know how I know that is the case? |
| 1:03.9 | I do because that sounds like a really nice way to feel. |
| 1:07.3 | It is a nice way to feel. And the reason I am so sure of it is because no less than five different people via Spotify comments, emails, DMs, just general reachouts, have asked me what I think about Lena Dunham's new memoir, famed sick. |
| 1:24.5 | And the fact that Lena Dunham has a new memoir out and that people |
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