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Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes...
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Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with people who have been the targets of coordinated attacks, activists who are fighting back, and experts to help break down the deliberate agenda behind it.
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17 JUL 2026 · AI girlfriends are everywhere. So why are the humans they're replacing being pushed off the internet? This is a chapter from Internet Hate Machine host Bridget Todd’s new Simon & Schuster audiobook, Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy. In this conversation, Bridget sit down with 404 Media cofounder Samantha Cole to unpack the booming business of AI companions, sex bots, and erotic role play. They explore why tech companies are racing to build AI girlfriends while human sex workers continue to face censorship, deplatforming, and financial discrimination. It's a conversation about labor, consent, power, and what happens when Big Tech decides to monetize our most intimate relationships. If you enjoy this episode, you can find Love at First Prompt wherever audiobooks are sold, or learn more at http://loveatfirstprompt.ai. See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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1 NOV 2023 · Tech shapes almost every aspect of our daily lives. And yet the tech we use has been controlled by a select few for far too long. On the new show https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpod.link%2F1708366625&data=05%7C01%7CSophieLichterman%40iheartmedia.com%7C6581cfb680e947cbba3a08dbcf37946f%7C122a527e5b714eba878d9810b495b9e3%7C0%7C0%7C638331609882500836%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LHXURSeQdwNWRkxcSZ2qobW18pHOYLtBw2m%2B8oMeZ0Q%3D&reserved=0, Bridget talks to https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fanitab.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7CSophieLichterman%40iheartmedia.com%7C6581cfb680e947cbba3a08dbcf37946f%7C122a527e5b714eba878d9810b495b9e3%7C0%7C0%7C638331609882500836%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qeiPoI0L%2FeuC1Y37OYpOc4Zvyb4z4F1rycXCCOgPr9g%3D&reserved=0's President and CEO Brenda Darden Wilkerson about challenging this disparity head-on. Let’s reclaim our digital agency, redefine tech, and create a future where those who create tech truly mirror the faces of those who use it.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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1 FEB 2023 · In the final episode of Internet Hate Machine, we look back on where we’ve been and where we’re going. Plus some big news from Cool Zone Media!See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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25 JAN 2023 · Ifeoma Ozoma has spent her career trying to make the internet safer. At Pinterest, she created clear content policies that earned the company praise. In return, she was targeted and doxxed by a white supremacist colleague, and then retaliated against by management when she spoke up. She talks with Bridget about the Sisyphean struggle of Black women trying to make a difference.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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18 JAN 2023 · Bridget is joined by James Stout to discuss Cecilia Lewis, a Maryland educator who was targeted and run out of Georgia after being hired to lead a DEI program in Cherokee County schools, thanks to a cooked up moral panic about Critical Race Theory. "Why the Black Educator Forced Out Over Bogus Critical Race Theory Claims Agreed to Share Her Story": https://www.propublica.org/article/cecelia-lewis-educator-cherokee-georgiaSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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11 JAN 2023 · Bridget is joined by BuzzFeed's Ellie Hall to discuss the online hate campaign facing Meghan Markle and the harassment Ellie herself has faced for reporting on it. Refinery 29's: "https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/06/10521988/megxit-meghan-markle-anti-fandom"
Ellie’s viral BuzzFeed piece about Royal double standards (all of her reporting is great though!):
"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/harry-meghan-hand-holding-zara-mike-tindall"See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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4 JAN 2023 · Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss are heroes for their testimony before the Jan 6th commission, but they shouldn’t have to be. In part two of this episode, Bridget continues her conversation with The Daily Zeitgeist’s Miles Gray, discussing what happened when the disgraced president and the right wing digital media ecosystem coalesced to attack Black women for simply doing their jobs as poll workers during the 2020 election.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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21 DEC 2022 · Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss are heroes for their testimony before the Jan 6th commission, but they shouldn’t have to be. The Daily Zeitgeist’s Miles Gray joins Bridget to discuss what happened when the disgraced president and the right wing digital media ecosystem coalesced to attack Black women for simply doing their jobs as poll workers during the 2020 election.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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14 DEC 2022 · The moral panic around the film Cuties explains why so many right wing extremists are using the “groomer” “child predator” attack to smear their enemies todaySee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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12 DEC 2022 · On her other tech podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet, Bridget explored how Elon Musk keeps trying to make fetch happen with the “Twitter Files,” by releasing internal Twitter emails about content moderation decisions on the platform before he took over as CEO.
But here’s why it’s not the bombshell he says it is.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes...
show more
Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with people who have been the targets of coordinated attacks, activists who are fighting back, and experts to help break down the deliberate agenda behind it.
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