Was the Taylor Swift ‘Nazi’ Controversy A Coordinated Bot Attack? EMERGENCY EPISODE!
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Did you see the narrative claiming Taylor Swift is a secret “trad wife Nazi” take off across social media? In this emergency episode, we break down a new report from analytics firm Gudea that examines how this discourse spread online, the role bot networks may have played, and what it reveals about misinformation, amplification, and the current internet ecosystem.
Stay tuned because we’ll hear from Gudea’s CEO and another third party expert about how this report came to be and what it means for how information travels online.
Taylor Swift’s Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swifts-social-media-campaign-life-of-a-showgirl-1235480646/
Here’s the full report: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69370c45ee6946ee05e9618a/6938f591279bf559ec50cd1c_GUDEA%20-%20Taylor%20Swift%20_%20Anatomy%20of%20a%20Narrative.pdf
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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. |
| 0:22.1 | So this is kind of an emergency episode. |
| 0:25.5 | So I have to bring in the production dream team for the first time ever on the podcast. |
| 0:31.3 | We have both Joey, our resident Swifty. |
| 0:34.2 | Yes. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, Bridget. |
| 0:35.9 | Of course. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm so glad you're here. And producer Mike, our resident data analyst, data scientist. What is your preferred? How do you identify? |
| 0:47.9 | Social scientist. Identify as a social scientist. A psychologist, if pressed. But I'm like pretty cross-disciplinary. |
| 0:56.7 | But data analyst is certainly correct. |
| 0:59.2 | I have analyzed a lot of data and I continue to. |
| 1:02.5 | And yeah, thanks for having me here. |
| 1:04.7 | Joey, it's so nice to be on an episode with you. |
| 1:07.0 | It is. |
| 1:08.1 | Listeners might not realize, yeah, this is our first episode on air together. |
| 1:12.2 | And in fact, this first time we've ever heard each other's voices in real time. |
| 1:16.1 | Yeah, people keep asking for behind the scenes what's going on. |
| 1:19.6 | Mike and I have never actually had a conversation face-to-face. |
| 1:22.3 | We will only communicate with each other over email and over hearing each other on the podcast. |
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