Instagram Instants Flop, Bumble Removes Swiping & Elon Musk Trial Juror Speaks Out - NEWS ROUNDUP

About this episode

This episode covers various tech and internet stories, including a racist streamer incident, a mother imprisoned for a Facebook post, and Elon Musk's controversial USAID cuts.

There Are No Girls on the Internet is a weekly podcast hosted by Bridget Todd. Every week we drop our news roundup — the tech and internet stories that don't get enough attention, the ones about AI, power, gender, race, and who actually gets hurt when systems fail. This week: A racist streamer livestreams from a stretcher. A mother goes to prison for a Facebook grief post. Elon Musk's USAID cuts may kill 9 million people. And Peter Thiel found a way to let anyone punish journalists for $2,000. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. New roundup episode every Friday. 📰 Here's what we were watching this week: Black Google employees said the company called them "not Googly enough" — Google just paid $50M to settle the lawsuit. A 2022 class action alleged Google hired Black employees into lower-paying roles, hazed them in interviews, and retaliated when they spoke up. The $50M payout comes with promises of pay equity audits and limits on forced arbitration. 🔗 AP News A woman posted about her stillbirth on Facebook. Police showed up and sent her to prison for 2 years. A broke single mom in Nevada was charged with manslaughter after an online grief post tipped off a…

People in this episode

Host: Bridget Todd

Topics covered

• technology
• society
• culture
• AI
• gender
• race
• criminal justice

Keywords

• Instagram
• Bumble
• Elon Musk
• Facebook
• Google
• Peter Thiel
• racism
• criminal charges
• pregnancy loss

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, Facebook, USAID, AP News

Places: Nevada

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