The Drama with Zendaya; BAFTAs Slur Fallout; Sheryl Sandberg Leans AI; Sex Pest Take-It-Down Conviction; Sex Toys Meta Ban; ANTIFA Terrorism Trial – NEWS ROUNDUP!
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In is fighting the gender gap in AI adoption, but raising questions about its own leadership. https://www.fastcompany.com/91521751/sheryl-sandbergs-lean-in-is-fighting-the-gender-gap-in-ai-adoption
Gen Z Goes to the Movies! The new Zendaya film 'The Drama' is a smash hit. Younger Audiences Are Driving Box Office Sales, Study Shows
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/gen-z-driving-box-office-1236703551/
The FBI was able to recover deleted Signal messages from a user's phone because they were stored in his notification history. Check your Signal settings now to stay safe "Settings > Notification > Store" https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/
She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section. https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-hearing-c-section
BBC breached editorial standards over BAFTAs racial slur but no big deal, BBC investigation finds. https://news.sky.com/story/bbc-breached-editorial-standards-over-baftas-racial-slur-investigation-finds-13529270
Ohio creep becomes first to be convicted under new Take-It-Down law for sexually explicit images:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/ohio-man-convicted-ai-sexually-explicit-images
Instagram reportedly deletes Bellesa sex toy shop account for using the word 'clitoris': https://mashable.com/article/instagram-deletes-bellesa-shop-account-with-700000-followers
‘This Is Not Me’: Inside the AI Scams Driving Musicians Crazy: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ai-scams-musicians-streaming-services-spotify-1235535753/
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| 0:40.9 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:46.6 | Can we dip into the drama around the drama a little bit? |
| 0:50.6 | The drama, of course, being Zendaya's new A-24 movie that is in theaters now, which you and I both saw over the weekend on opening night, mind you, which is always a little bit exciting for me. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, absolutely. The drama, drama is worth talking about. The movie was pretty fun. I really enjoyed it. The reviews are very polarizing, so, like, it's not the kind of movie that's going to be for everybody. The theater was full of what I kind of clocked as young Gen Z types, which was very exciting. I actually saw a new poll that said that young people are going to the movies more. This makes me happy as somebody who loves going to the movies. The idea of people not going to the movies more. This makes me happy as somebody who loves going to the movies. |
| 1:29.3 | The idea of people not going to the movies concerns me. And it's all that I do, frankly, |
| 1:34.4 | it's like my one big pastime. So I feel kind of cool that I'm like, oh yeah, me and Gen Z have |
| 1:40.6 | the same pastime here. So youthful, so in touch with the kids. According to Fandango's |
| 1:46.9 | annual movie going trends and insight study, they surveyed 7,000 adults and they found that 87% |
| 1:52.3 | of Gen Ziers and 82% of millennials saw at least one movie in theaters in the past 12 months |
| 1:59.0 | compared with 70% of Gen Xers and only 58% of baby boomers. |
| 2:05.2 | Huh. So the Gen Zers are going to movies. More there are everybody else. Although it's like |
| 2:10.3 | everybody's going to movies. That's like the majority of American adults went to at least one movie, |
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