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MrBeast Under Fire; Hailey Bieber Dogpile; “Emily Hart” and the AI MAGA scam – NEWS ROUNDUP
Season 5 Episode 102
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed.
MrBeast’s Beast Industries Sued by Former…
1 month ago
Clavicular and the Looksmaxxing Cult That Almost Killed Him
Season 5 Episode 101
What happens when a teenage boy spends his formative years on incel forums, starts injecting steroids at 14, hits himself in the face with a hammer i…
1 month, 1 week ago
Reese Witherspoon AI Gender Gap; Lauren Sanchez Cosplays Relevance; Online Assault Academy; Flock Spying; Nigerian WhatsApp Smut – NEWS ROUNDUP
Season 5 Episode 100
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed. TRIGGER WARNING - one story discusses distu…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Racist AI TikTok Scam That's Flooding Your Feed
Season 5 Episode 99
Fake AI-generated Black women are flooding your social media feeds, performing self-hatred, pushing porn sites and drop shipping scams, and raking in…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
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!
Season 5 Episode 98
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 g…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Mia Ballard's novel Shy Girl was cancelled for using AI. You only know half the story
Season 5 Episode 97
You've probably heard about author Mia Ballard. Her debut novel "Shy Girl" has been at the center of a controversy about whether she used AI to help …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Goodreads Scandal That Predicted Publishing's AI Crisis
Season 5 Episode 96
Publishing is having a trust crisis. With AI accusations swirling around authors like Mia Ballard, whose novel Shy Girl was dropped by her publisher …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sam Altman Isn’t Building a Company, He’s Building an Empire (with Karen Hao)
Season 5 Episode 95
Investigative journalist Karen Hao was covering OpenAI years before most of us had ever heard the words "ChatGPT" or "large language model." Her best…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Erika Kirk Druski Parody; Chappell Roan's Bot Army; Meta Loses in Court; & OpenAI Kills Sora – News Roundup
Season 5 Episode 94
In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike are covering the tech news stories you might have missed.
Chappell Roan bodyguard controversy …
2 months ago
Lindy West Told Us Everything in Adult Braces. Was It a Mistake?
Season 5 Episode 93
Remember the personal essay industrial complex? The 2010s era of Jezebel and xoJane where feminist writers put every raw, messy, private part of them…
2 months ago