17 Burst results for "Bridget Todd"
The Coin Bureau Podcast: Crypto Without the Hype
"bridget todd" Discussed on The Coin Bureau Podcast: Crypto Without the Hype
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Elvis Duran Presents: Celebrity Buzz
"bridget todd" Discussed on Elvis Duran Presents: Celebrity Buzz
"On the streets of the lower bottoms. Last season, we got to know some local characters who made us smile, made us cry and made us think. Former FBI agent bola Rhodes discovered her best friend was involved in the police shooting of her twin sister, and who could forget shante. Found herself ensnared in a most vicious scheme, a little desanto, Devon didn't die that night. Chante, you better watch your back, for you may be the next victim on the bottoms. Listen to the lower bottom season one and two. Right now on the iHeartRadio Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. How did the online harassment of a Saturday Night Live comedian paved the way to a Trump White House? Or how did people in Georgia use Facebook to run a black teacher out of town? And what does any of this have to do with our democracy? The answer is the Internet. They're all instances where women were targeted by an online hate mob. And this kind of thing has been steadily creeping from our computer screen into our wider political landscape. I'm Bridget Todd, and on my new podcast, Internet hate machine. I'll be charting how the harassment and abuse of women and other traditionally marginalized people online has led us to our current political healthcare. And what we can do about it. Listen to Internet hate machine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch. It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy. Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long form journalism, like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long form story every week. I'm that host. Listen to story of the week on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to truth. I've been telling stories about how we know what we know. And why it seems sometimes lately, because if we don't know anything at all. But I am done with the problems of truth. I want solutions. This season of the last archive is all about common knowledge. Is that kind of knowledge still possible? I tried to find out. Coming soon. Listen to the last archive on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Talk Python To Me
"bridget todd" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"Doing huge amounts of work, it tends to be pretty peppy. Sure. Yeah, and you can choose how much data you put in it right. So you can chill out on that. This episode of talk python is brought to you by the IRL podcast and original podcast from Mozilla. If you're like me, you care about the ideas behind technology, not just the tech itself. We know that tech has an enormous influence on society. Many of these effects are hugely beneficial. Just think about how much information we carry with us every day through our cell phones. Other tech influences can be more negative. I really appreciate that Mozilla is always on the lookout for and working to mitigate negative influences attack for all of us. If those kinds of ideas resonate with you, you should definitely check out the IRL podcast. It's hosted by Bridget Todd, and this season of IRL looks at AI in real life, who can AI help, who can harm. The show features fascinating conversations with people who are working to build a more trustworthy AI. For example, there's an episode on how the world is mapped with AI. But it's the data that's missing from those maps that tells as much of the story as the data that's there. Another episode is about gig workers who depend on apps for their livelihood. It looks at how they're pushing back against algorithms that control how much they get paid and how they're seeking new ways to gain power over data and create better working conditions for all of them. And for you political junkies, there's even an episode about the role that AI plays when it comes to the spread of disinformation around elections. Obviously a huge concern for democracies around the world. I just listened to the tech that we won't build, which explores wind developers and data scientists should consider saying no to projects that can be harmful to society even though we do have the tech to build them. Does this sound like an interesting show?
This Week In Google
"bridget todd" Discussed on This Week In Google
"What? When we return as you written all over it. I show today brought to you by in real life. IRL, it's an original podcast from Mozilla. A show for, guess what? People who build AI. And the people who develop tech policies to regulate it. Bridget Todd hosts this, and there's a new season just came out that's why I want to mention it to you. It looks at AI in real life. Boy, this couldn't be more timely, could it. Who can AI help? Who can it harm this season 6 of IRL? The show features fascinating conversations with people who are working to build more trustworthy, AI. So I'll give you some example episodes, really good ones that I enjoyed like. There's an episode about how the world is mapped with AI. And what data is missing as much as is important, right? Is what data is there, you'll hear about the people who are working to fill in those gaps and to take control of the data. There's an episode about gig workers who depend on apps for their livelihood. You know, those algorithms and Uber and Lyft and how they're pushing back against the algorithms that not only control how much they get paid, but who they pick up where they go, what they do, whether they work or not. And about the workers who are looking to find new ways to gain power over the data so they can have better working conditions. The truth is out there, AI from above, when an algorithm is your boss, their episodes for political junkies about the role of AI plays when it comes to the spread of misinformation and hate speech or an elections. This is a very good show about a very important topic. We've been kind of meandering all around it. This show is all about it.
Talk Python To Me
"bridget todd" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"Can get a key to para keys, actually. Yeah. So the parakeets thing also, people weren't really sure why we were doing that. But the main reason is to help you not lose both of them. Lose all access. So if you have two keys and you've used both of them, you have some redundancy. You can stick somewhat, stick it in the garage or stick it somewhere else, hand it to a friend. Exactly, exactly. This episode of talk python is brought to you by the IRL podcast and original podcast from Mozilla. If you're like me, you care about the ideas behind technology, not just the tech itself. We know that tech has an enormous influence on society. Many of these effects are hugely beneficial. Just think about how much information we carry with us every day through our cell phones. Other tech influences can be more negative. I really appreciate that Mozilla is always on the lookout for and working to mitigate negative influences attack for all of us. If those kinds of ideas resonate with you, you should definitely check out the IRL podcast. It's hosted by Bridget Todd, and this season of IRL looks at AI in real life, who can AI help, who can harm. The show features fascinating conversations with people who are working to build a more trustworthy AI. For example, there's an episode on how the world is mapped with AI. But it's the data that's missing from those maps that tells as much of the story as the data that's there. Another episode is about gig workers who depend on apps for their livelihood. It looks at how they're pushing back against algorithms that control how much they get paid and how they're seeking new ways to gain power over data and create better working conditions for all of them. And for you political junkies, there's even an episode about the role that AI plays when it comes to the spread of disinformation around elections. Obviously a huge concern for democracies around the world. I just listened to the tech that we won't build, which explores wind developers and data scientists should consider saying no to projects that can be harmful to society even though we do have the tech to build them. Does this sound like an interesting show?
Practical AI: Machine Learning & Data Science
"bridget todd" Discussed on Practical AI: Machine Learning & Data Science
"Episode of practical AI. This is Daniel whitenack. I'm a data scientist with SIL international. And I'm not joined today by Chris, who is currently in a plane somewhere taking his daughter to Disney World, I think, to have a wonderful time. So we'll give him the week off, but in lieu of Chris, we have some amazing guests with us today to talk through some of what Mozilla is putting out with their IRL podcast and their latest Internet health report. We have with us Solana Larson, who is the editor of the Internet health report, and Bridget Todd, who is host of most Zilla's IRL podcast. Welcome, great to have you both. Thanks for having us. Yeah, so excited to be here. I was so excited that we got to do this. Of course, you're putting out amazing content through the Internet health report and the IRL podcast, which this time around is focused on AI and I'm sure we'll get into that, but maybe before we do Solana, would you mind just sort of introducing for those that aren't familiar with it? What is the Internet health report? And how did it come about and maybe just a little bit of context there? Sure. Well, it's an annual report, and it's published by Mozilla, and we started 5 editions ago, asking a big question, what does it even mean for the Internet to be healthy? And what happens when we think about it as an ecosystem that can be either healthy or unhealthy or bits of both at the same time? And then the important question, of course, is how do we make it healthier? So when we're talking about healthy in this case, we're thinking a lot about how it acts as an ecosystem for humans for humanity. Is it benefit to the world? Is it something that is good for people? And so when we think about the things that are unhealthy, you know, it's everything from disinformation or hate speech, but it can also be things like how many people are connected to the Internet. How many women are online? Are people able to build and code and compete, you know, what is this ecosystem that we're building? So every year we would step back and look across a lot of different topics, everything from undersea cables to codes of conduct and open-source communities and so forth. And I think over the years, a lot has changed in how we talk about the Internet and how we understand the Internet, both in the media and in technical circles, how we think about regulation, and so in terms of moving with the times a little bit, I think right now is the moment to talk about AI. And so it's the first year that we have taken just one big topic as the focus area for the Internet health report and gone deep on just that. And with AI, it's really all the things that hurt or harm the health of the Internet the most, we see those magnified or amplified with AI in a lot of ways. But there's also a lot of opportunity, right?
IRL: Online Life Is Real Life
"bridget todd" Discussed on IRL: Online Life Is Real Life
"And it was not the case. The AI act is made just to put products into the market. Period. So Aida and many others worked to bridge that gap. Trade unions are lobbying the European institutions and Aida advises them. The commission eventually proposed additional rules for improving platform work in December. EU laws are negotiated for a long time between many stakeholders. But if this directive is passed, it could improve the lives of workers. At least in Europe. But it could also raise the bar for other countries. As a platform worker, the first advantage that you will have is that you would be recognized as a platform worker as an employee of the digital level platform. And that will change your life because it will give you access to social security, perhaps to insurance, and then you will have some guarantees about whether you will be dealing with an accident, a workplace accident, or you will have your social contributions to your pension. Today, that is not the case. That's not all the directive would do though. In addition to guaranteeing those protections, it would give workers the right to disagree with computers. You would be able to challenge the algorithm. This directed has a new right, which is the right to contest. First, of course, the right to access the algorithm and the logic behind it. If you as a platform work, just discover that you have been affected negatively in why way or another by the app or the deployment of the algorithm, you can ask to the digital label platform. Excuse me. Can I exercise my data access right? And please give me the rationale behind this decision. So I hear his imagining policies that give workers real concrete rights. And the policy future she wants to build goes beyond exposing code or usage statistics. There's a lot of focus on this transparency obligation. There is little focus on how to make this transparency really accountable, meaning by enforcement of authorities or by sanctions like administrative fines, or by giving people more rights to exercise truly the right to get information to contest decisions in a meaningful manner. Europe has been leading the way when it comes to data rights. But policy interventions on AI as well as platform labor are brewing elsewhere too. Gig work is becoming a new norm, and the fragmentation and automation of labor with AI is happening across many industries. These issues affect everybody. Remember the May Day protest in Ecuador where we met Jose, Julia's was also there. She's a delivery driver and the general secretary of an organization of digital platform workers in Ecuador. Julie says, when it comes to regulation and Ecuador, the fear of falling behind technologically is given priority over a human rights. They want to do everything digital. Everything robotic, but the human worker will always be there. So where do we fit as human beings? It's a complete error to think like this. That's why we're protesting and why we will keep protesting. Okay, so we could be dramatic and say that platform workers are the canary in the coal mine of our future with AI. But the technology itself isn't the culprit. It's what the industry chooses to do with it that matters. We need policies to set guardrails for innovation. And we need people to be able to challenge decisions made by algorithms in ways that build trust and security for all. In the rest of our 5 part series, we're doing deep dives into healthcare, maps, disinformation, and more. Because AI really is everywhere, but who has the power? We're talking to people around the world who are challenging the status quo to make AI more trustworthy. This is IRL, an original podcast for Mozilla, the nonprofit behind Firefox. Follow us and come back in two weeks. This season of IRL doubles as Mozilla's annual Internet health report. To learn more about the people, research and data behind the stories, come find us at Internet health report dot org. I'm Bridget Todd. Thanks for listening.
IRL: Online Life Is Real Life
"bridget todd" Discussed on IRL: Online Life Is Real Life
"From unmanned drones to social media systems, what does it feel like to be on the receiving end of technologies designed by foreign superpowers? The relationship that many of us have with technology is one sided, especially in the global south, where a lot of this tech, the apps that we use, the devices that we use, have been built in other places in other contexts by people who have not really sort of imagined us as the end users, and that is a really important issue because if that tech is not built for you or with you in mind or your needs in mind, there is a sign that you're excluded from those conversations. That's smila Khan. She's the research and policy director for the digital rights foundation in Pakistan. Its goal is to stop the weaponization of social media against women, minorities, and dissidents. This is a problem that's made worse by algorithms and lack of transparency. The organization has a cyber harassment helpline and advocates for policy and platform reform. Smila says that too often, civil society is trying in vain to get their voices heard by social media companies who develop platforms in one part of the world and are causing harm and hers. And smila says that even when they listen, there's no accountability. I think that's sort of the main frustration that over the years sort of me and other sort of colleagues also in the region have had that we don't just want to sit in a room and use all our labor and give you all our expertise and for these companies and these tech people who are building this tech to then not be accountability for that. So I think that's also a really extractive relationship that we've seen even when voices are included. When smilo was in college, she remembers hearing reports of unmanned drone attacks in nearby regions every day. It instilled an awareness in her about the particular dangers of technology developed in one part of the world, with life or death effects in another. They were people sitting in a part of the U.S. and they felt like they were playing a video game where they would be this bad and sort of like areas with sparsely populated a lot of times or with terrain that they don't really understand. And they would just be executing these skin lists and it was so sort of jarring. I think the first time I sort of read about data is this completely taken aback that it's such a clinical way of taking people's lives, sitting halfway across the world and the kind of distance that that creates between what you're doing and what's happening on the ground. This distance smile is talking about is a feature of automation. AI helps create an illusion of something happening without human input. In some cases, it acts as a high-tech smokescreen to blur harms against people. Smila gives an example of a mobile app for women backed by her own government. It's designed as a panic button that women can press to get help if they're in danger. But, given the limitations on women's rights and Pakistan, smila says, it's a dangerous tracking technology. The essential message to women is that if you want security, then you'll have to give up privacy, which is extremely problematic, but also sort of indicative of how the state conceptualizes security itself. It is surrendering yourself to complete and total surveillance as a way of being granted that privilege of security. Smilo worries when any technology is presented as a silver bullet that can fix larger societal problems. Like an app to protect women from violence, when few women in Pakistan even have phones. With AI overconfidence and technology is amped up. I'd say it's a lot to people that unusually that person and a room or my colleagues and I are those people in a room where we're always questioning why something needs to be built in the first place. Can we build this? Yes. Should we build this? Depends on who you ask. Most people don't get any say on what tech should be built or how it should be deployed in the world. But maybe you do. I wish we lived in a world with no killer robots. So, how about for every conversation we have about the tech we won't build, let's have three more about the tech that we do want to build. With the people we'd like to build it with. AI is here to stay. But let's use it for something better. This is IRL, an original podcast for Mozilla, the nonprofit behind Firefox. Follow us and come back in two weeks. This season of IRL doubles as Mozilla's annual Internet health report. To learn more about the people, research and data behind the stories, come find us at Internet health report dot org. I'm Bridget Todd, thanks for listening.
There Are No Girls on the Internet
"bridget todd" Discussed on There Are No Girls on the Internet
"A production of iHeartRadio and unbossed creative. I'm Bridget Todd, and this is their no girls on the Internet. So we were all ready to go live with an episode today, but we had a little breaking news on Monday that I really wanted to talk to you all about. So this is going to be a little bit of a different episode. After much back and forth, better accept a billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk's $44 billion bid to buy and take over Twitter. Subject to a shareholder vote following Twitter's board's approval. And as somebody who makes a podcast about the Internet and social media and technology, works to make social media platforms safer, specifically for marginalized people. And it's also just someone who uses Twitter, I have a lot of thoughts and feelings. First, you should know that Twitter is kind of a mess for people who are not straight white cis men. Ultraviolet, a gender justice organization where I work with a great team of campaigners to try to build a more feminist Internet, found that a third of women under the age of 35 and 70% of LGBTQ adults report being harassed online and 61% of women compared with 48% of men characterize online harassment as a major problem. And Amnesty International found that black women were 85% and women of color in general were 34% more likely than white women to be targeted for online abuse. So yet, it's a real problem. And I gotta say, I do not have a ton of confidence in Elon Musk's ability, intention, or frankly desire to correct any of this based on his track record. So let's take a look at that track record. Tesla has faced lawsuits from current and former staff for sexual harassment and racism. Women workers at Tesla faced nightmarish conditions of rampant sexual harassment. According to lawsuits. And a federal jury in San Francisco ordered Tesla to pay O and Diaz, a black former employee, $136.9 million because of the racial harassment that he faced there. The state of California is currently suing Tesla for allegedly trying to silence thousands of black workers who complained about dealing with racism while working at Tesla. One especially heartbreaking account from a number of black employees reports that they were moved to the back of the plant whenever Musk would visit the facility. So what does all this mean for women people of color and LGBTQ folks on Twitter? I sat down with my producer Michael to discuss. How do you feel about this Twitter situation? What were your initial thoughts about Elon Musk buying Twitter? So I have to say, I kind of got the whole Elon Musk buying Twitter thing wrong. When I first started hearing reports that he was thinking about buying Twitter, I thought for sure Elon Musk just really wanted that to be something that was in a couple of rounds of news cycles. I did not think he was actually going to buy Twitter. I was so convinced that this was just going to be something you talked a big game about, just like other big things that he's talked about donating money to the UN to end world hunger, which he never did, even though he promised that he would. And I was wrong, you know, I really thought this was just going to be talk from a billionaire to show that he could buy it if you want to do. And I was incorrect. What was going on in your life when you first got on Twitter? I know that you are pretty prolific on there. You've been on it for a while. What was that early experience like? Oh, the early days of Twitter was such a different world. It was really fun, I don't think we knew what it was. There's a kind of phenomenon on Twitter where black folks find each other and connect over jokes and communal laughter and shared experiences. I think there were just a lot of opportunities for joy in the early days of Twitter that I don't think I've really seen a lot of since those early days. The day that those two llamas got loose, llamas on the loose, where everyone was tracking those llamas and then, you know, the days of the dress, my favorite ever day on Twitter is the day that a I think it was Yahoo news tweeted about Trump wanting to have a bigger navy, but they accidentally had a typo when they used the N word and word navy. And it was a great day for jokes on Twitter. It was this really fun, and it was, it felt low stakes, I think. It felt a lot lower stakes than it's felt in the last three or four or 5 years for sure. Yeah. But you're still on there. So what role would you say Twitter plays in your life now? Oh, I am on Twitter now purely because I sort of have to be, I think, it's not something that I really enjoy being on. But I feel that at this point in my career, I have to be there to find it is a quick way to find out what's happening in the news and what's happening in the world around you, what's happening with elected officials and world leaders, I feel like it's sort of I'm there kind of by necessity, not for not for the same kind of recreation or a reverence or community building that once was so such a big part of the experience of being there. My time there is much more I tweet when I got a tweet, I put it out there, if anybody has anything to say about it, I probably am not going to see the replies. I'm not hanging out in Twitter trying to have conversation and engage because frankly it's just not that pleasant of a place to do that. It just doesn't feel like a fun place to spend time in that way. And everything, even low stakes things on Twitter, feel very high stakes. One thing I find myself doing is intentionally engaging in very low stakes, Twitter conversations, specifically to try to recapture some of that old feeling of what it felt like when you could actually engage with people on Twitter about things that you maybe didn't agree with. Somebody tweeted something recently that was, what's your cancellable coffee opinion? And I was like, oh, people who drink black coffee don't actually like the taste of black coffee, they're just trying to look grown up. They're just pretending to like the face of black coffee. And it was actually very fun to have people kind of get gently spicy with me about not agreeing with my strongly held, but very low stakes opinion. And it's being able to engage in that way. We don't really get a lot of opportunities on Twitter. It feels like to have those kinds of low stakes back and forth with people. But that used to be the norm. Yeah. It can feel very high stakes, and it's nice that you got out of it fairly unscathed with your clearly incorrect opinion about black coffee. Okay, I know you drink your coffee black. I know that you don't actually really like it. I've seen you put cream in it sometimes sometimes. We.
There Are No Girls on the Internet
"bridget todd" Discussed on There Are No Girls on the Internet
"Remember me? I am Bridget Todd. I am the host and creator of iHeartRadio's. There are no girls on the Internet, a podcast where we explore, oh, all right, I'll take that. Yes, that's the smattering of applause. I have to say, this is my first ever live podcast taping, so if I seem a little nervous, that is why. On the show, if you don't know what it's about, we explore all the different ways that marginalized folks, so women, people of color, trans folks, queer folks, all the different ways that we show up or don't show up online. And a reality of this work is that time and time again, so much of the work making Internet spaces safer, better, more inclusive, is being done by women and other marginalized folks, and it is work that is dangerous. It is personally costly. And we hardly ever recognize that work. And that's one of the reasons I'm so excited to be talking to you my first ever live podcast guest, Amanda, give it up for Amanda. This is also my first live podcast experience. So we're in this together. We got this. So Amanda, you spend a year of your life being embedded with some of the worst sort of far right extremist French folks folks like give us a few of the names of the folks that you were kicking it with. So here's the worst part is that you won't know their names, but they're busy writing legislation. But they are former members of patriot front and identity Europa and other hate groups that you would recognize. So how did this how did you come to spend a year of your life doing this? Take us. Take us back. How did this start? So I've always had an interest in politics. I was raised evangelical. My parents are both Trump voters. And I was a libertarian until I was like 26, which is super embarrassing. And a lot of people that I knew in libertarian movement ended up moving into the extreme far right, some are in jail. Some are Proud Boys you should probably be in jail. Some, you know, I was very, I was not friends with Chris Cantwell, the crying Nazi from Charlottesville, but we knew people in common. And so I've always been able to move within that world. And my job was just completely belly up. I'm in live events, so it was cease to exist during COVID. I had a lot of free time. So I went to the steel rallies, I kind of just walked to them and recorded whatever. And so that meant I was at the insurrection. So that was the answer. I was like, oh, shit. This is real. And we're really going to do this now. And it kind of escalated from there without me intending for it to. Something that you write about so interestingly is, you know, we all know what happened here in D.C. on January 6th, but you actually talk about the way that the climate that was fostered at some of the earlier events and earlier rallies in D.C. by people like the Proud Boys really did sort of lead to what we saw on the 6th. Can you talk a little bit about that? What were you seeing in the lead up to what happened on the 6th? At some of these events. There's a moment that will live in my mind for the rest of my life. I was in front of the Supreme Court. It was December, the December stopped the steel rally in 2020. And this woman told me I was almost assaulted at the November rally. And I asked her what happened. And she said she was walking back to the Trump hotel and her phone had died. And some guys ran past her. And she just took off running. And that was it. That was the whole story. That was the story of her near assault. And it was incredibly strange to me at the time. And she said, you know, she had to be maybe 50, and she said, I marched the Proud Boys last night until two in the morning. And you might recall the Proud Boys like stab people when they were doing that. So it really, it really just struck me that she was so afraid of everybody here. And everything in this situation of just being in this liberal wasteland, where we're 94% for Joe Biden, you know? That she thought that walking past her was almost assaulting her. And later that night, I was in front of Harry's after another stabbing. And. I watched all the Proud Boys line up and they started marching and chanting and Alex Jones was like giving us this pep talk 1776, 1776. And then the probably is sort of like going off in groups of 8 to ten as though they were going off to war. So grandpas are telling them good luck. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your service. And they just walking around downtown D.C. like terrorizing whoever they see. And it's so disgusting from reality, but there was this, it felt like a coordinated campaign to make everybody who flew here and came here from out of town. Whether they were from a real city or from the middle of nowhere, it didn't matter, to just feel like everybody here was against them. And this is antifa. You're all antifa 100%. You know, if you're here, physically present, you are like an antifa super soldier. And so just seeing that coordinate effort was bizarre. Yeah, it's something I like about your work is that it really grounds it in this idea that D.C. is a city where people live and that I think that for a lot of people, D.C. is an abstraction. They don't understand that people actually live here. And I have lived here most of my life. And I still have friends from different cities who would swear that in 2020 D.C. burned to the ground. And ceases to exist. I'll be like, oh, how are you out there in D.C.? And I think that your work helps us see that this is a real city. People live here. And so I really appreciate that. You know, when you think about how people report about extremist movements and these extremist figures, what is something that folks leave out? What is something that you wish that people knew about how these groups actually operate? I think there's a lot of coverage of what the final result is without a lot of coverage of that lead up. When I first wrote about my experience in January 6th and the lead up to it and talking about people feeling like they were targeted just because they were like a Trump supporter within D.C. and not just targeted for people to be like you saw it go away but like targeted for actual violence. A lot of people reach out to me and we're like, I had no idea it was like that in D.C.. A lot of people didn't realize that Bowser told us to stay home. Our mayor told us to stay home and to not go out to not counter protest. And she told us that three times. And in my opinion, it's possible that January 6th could have possibly not happened. If a more people had left their houses in November December. And I just think something is missing because I am I've also lived most of my life here. And if I can see that failure in a lot of these journalists who are writing about this, they lived here. And why can't they see it? I don't know. I don't know if it's like an outlet issue where they're not allowed to publish something like that, but there's a lot that goes on, I think within the way that movements are organized, when people get pushback, they get really upset. I mean, look at these truckers now. They're literally crying because people are giving them the finger. And I am someone that the truckers told to.
There Are No Girls on the Internet
"bridget todd" Discussed on There Are No Girls on the Internet
"Oh my God. Roomier. Hunter. Oh my. Pack your bags. When everything feels right, that's the first ever curl across. Toyota let's go places. What I really hope is that the work that we've done with the bath has been able to inspire companies into thinking like, well, we've ignored our problems and it's not worked. So, you know, maybe this is a bit of a kick up the bum to do something about it. There are no girls on the Internet as a production of iHeartRadio and unbossed creative. I'm Bridget Todd, and this is there are no girls on the Internet. March 8th is international women's day, a global holiday to commemorate the achievements of women, and I have to say, I really, really hate it. And if we're being completely honest, I have always been a little bit of a Grinch about pretty much any and all holidays or commemorative months, meant to celebrate marginalized people, because it always seems that they get co opted by brands and corporations, making empty gestures towards solidarity that are pretty much meaningless. So I usually stay away from social media on international women's day because I really can't do without the tweets from brands about how I should celebrate women by using their discount code to buy lingerie or whatever. But this international women's day, something a little bit different happened. Yes, the brand still did their thing, unleashing their hollow tweets, assuring us how much they love women. But when they did, they were retweeted by a Twitter account called the gender pay gap bot that added some very important context. How much of a gender wage gap exists at the very same companies tweeting about how they're celebrating women. So for instance, when the fashion retailer misguided and tweeted, we're paying it forward this international women's day, and we're giving away prizes throughout the day, including 1000 pounds cash. Gender, pay gap retweeted their tweet, adding, in this organization, women's median hourly pay is 40% lower than men's. Ouch. Now, many of the women's day tweets made by companies that gender pay gap put on blast for paying women less were curiously deleted. It was social media chaos, and as a messy bitch, of course, I loved every minute of it. I spoke to Francesca Lawson, the social media marketer based in Manchester, who built the gender pay cap alongside her partner LE about how it came to be. So Francesca, I have to tell you your project really just stuck something inside of me, I guess. I'm a little bit of a Grinch. I really hate holidays like pride. I hate international women's day. And I just feel that these days have kind of become so co opted in a lot of ways. Is this something that you can relate to? Yeah, definitely. In my line of work in social media marketing, I have been that person that's made myself really unpopular when I've been asked to update all our logos to pride flags, for instance. And I've been like, hold on a second, why do you want to do that? You want to sort of make sure that we're promoting ourselves as being really good for LGBT rights, but what do we have to show for that? Can we really sort of put out a flag and that the it? That would be all our contribution. So yeah, that's just another example of where this sort of performative marketing comes about and it really frustrates me. It just doesn't sit right with my values, I believe that it's up to all of us to be kind of working towards a more inclusive world through our actions. And so yeah, it's not enough to change your profile picture to a pride flag. And it's not enough to host it inspirational women's webinar for international women's day. It's really important that our words are backed up by our actions, whether we are speaking as an individual or a business or like a government body or something like that. And so yeah, that's what inspired the creation of the gender pay gap but we've got the gender pay gap data available for UK companies with more than 250 employees. So by putting that back into the spotlight back into the public eye, it helps members of the public see through these messages of corporate solidarity and make their own minds up about how well an employer is doing for equality. On Twitter, the gender pay gap bots bio reads, employers, if you tweet about international women's day, I'll retweet your gender pay gap. Looking eyes emoji using purposeful unemotional language, the gender pay gap bot tweets publicly available data to highlight the actual values of the company's proclaiming the champion women, and it was born from the same kind of frustration that I feel about empty platitudes about uplifting women and other marginalized voices. It was basically the weekend before international women's day 2021 is when you think started coming through again. People promoting their revenge, people offering you discount codes to buy lingerie or something for international women's day. And it just sort of made me so frustrated because it seems like no one's facing any accountability for these claims. And so I knew that the data was there, I don't think that many other people did know that the data was there. So yeah, myself and my partner, Ali, we sort of wanted to come up with a way of putting that data back into the spotlight. And yeah, we built a bottle. In the UK, any company that employs more than 250 people has to publish their figures comparing men and women's average pay across the organization. You can see it at gender pay gap dot service dot gov dot UK. Now this transparency is a great step, but Francesca says it still has a long way to go. So in the UK, any company that has more than 250 employers has to make their pay their gender pay, is it just pay generally? Or is it specifically pay in relation to the gender pay gap? It's just an in relation to the gender pay gap. So we don't have a record of what employees are getting paid what wages within that company, all we've got is sort of the average, the difference between the average man's earnings and the difference between the average woman's earnings. So it's a useful it's a useful way to compare companies actions versus their words, but.
There Are No Girls on the Internet
"bridget todd" Discussed on There Are No Girls on the Internet
"Are so relatable and they just like us and real criticism in covering these things. But those things are being spread also by Russian accounts, so be aware of that. It's not new what's happening now. It's not something that I'm really happy that this has brought more attention to TikTok and the stuff that's being spread there and how fast it's being spread and how easily it's being spread, but this is getting attention because people think it's important. But there's lots of other misinformation that's being spread. That's not seen as important enough to fact check. Apparently, because I can see even in mainstream media, there's a lot of misinformation about trans people. Which has not gotten nearly as much attention as other topics when it comes to fact checking. There's this panic about, oh my God, there's so much misinformation on social media. But it's always certain topics that are getting fact checked. And others that are not getting the same amount of information. So fact checking is not something that's neutral. Which some people don't realize, maybe. Because you choose what kind of things you fact check and I think other topics on TikTok are getting spread with just as much misinformation and maybe just as much harm that's being done. So I hope that this event and the amount of attention that it's getting now that there's so much misinformation on TikTok is also going to lead to more research and more attention on the other forms of misinformation that are being spread there. Yeah, I'm so glad you added that. When we were talking about Rogan, it was so interesting to me that it was the I mean, obviously it deserves a lot of attention, but the COVID misinformation, everyone was agreed. No good. But the misinformation about trans people, that is also a medical misinformation. That is also a public health issue, and that it's so interesting that mainstream people traffic in that kind of misinformation. You know, elected officials traffic in medical misinformation about trans people. And it somehow we don't clock at the same way. And we should be questioning why that is and sit with that, you know, sit with that reality. Yeah. Got a story about an interesting thing in tech or just want to say hi. You can reach us at hello at ten godi dot com. You can also find transcripts for today's episode at tango dot com. There are no girls on the Internet was created by me, rigid Todd. It's a production of iHeartRadio and unbossed creative. Jonathan Strickland has our executive producer. Tara Harrison is our producer and sound engineer. Michael amato is our contributing producer. I'm your host, Bridget Todd. If you want to help us grow, rate and review us on Apple podcasts. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, check out the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your.
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"bridget todd" Discussed on There Are No Girls on the Internet
"Internet as a production of iHeartRadio and unboss creative. I'm Bridget Todd and this is there are no girls on the Internet. Today marks the one year anniversary of the insurrection at the capitol. I live in Washington D.C. and I don't think I'll ever forget going from watching historic returns in the Georgia Senate runoff election and watching votes be certified for president Joe Biden on television to watching violent insurrectionists storm the capitol in real time from my apartment, which is only about a mile away. Now, January 6th at the capitol was not the first time that extremists have resorted to violence to try to get what they want. In fact, many of the tactics and major players that led to the deadly insurrection at the capitol were the very same that abortion providers and advocates have been warning about for decades. A few days after the insurrection last year, I joined my friend Samantha and Annie at the podcast stuff, mom never told you to break down the huge overlap between the anti abortion movement and the insurrection at the capitol.
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"bridget todd" Discussed on There Are No Girls on the Internet
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There are no girls on the Internet as a production of iHeartRadio and unboss creative. I'm Bridget Todd and this is there are no girls on the Internet. We have talked a lot on the show about social media amateur detectives and how dangerous they can be. And if you're on TikTok, you might have seen a good example of what I mean, play out in real time on TikTok this week. On TikTok, Sabrina Prada's bio reads, I'm a 34 year old male who has been dressing up since I was little. Working on coming out. Sabrina likes to film videos dancing in high heeled boots, tight jeans, flashy blouses, and sometimes a ponytailed shoulder length wig. In what looks like a visibly old deteriorating home, there's ladders and buckets in the background and stains on the floor. And in a few of the videos of Sabrina dancing, there's a monitor in the background with grainy images on them. Now, maybe these videos look a little bit weird, especially if you've never been inside a really old building before. And at first, people on TikTok were using Sabrina's videos to make jokes about being in sad looking locations. Things like a night out at your hometown bar, the night before Thanksgiving. But increasingly, people on TikTok started accusing Sabrina of being up to something more sinister than just dancing. TikTok's algorithm surfaced videos on my for you page. Some of which had tens of thousands of views, accusing Sabrina of being a serial killer. The evidence? Amateur sleuths on TikTok said those stains on the floor were actually blood stains. Those difficult to see grainy images on the monitors behind Sabrina? Well, they said that those were video feeds, so Sabrina could keep tabs on captive victims. One video even said that Sabrina's flashy heels and outfits were the clothing belonging to women being held captive in the old home. Before it was shut down, I scrolled a Facebook page full of hundreds of wannabe detectives, making baseless claims and accusations about Sabrina and Sabrina's family. Well, those people finally got to the bottom of this conspiracy theory. And get ready to have your mind blown. It turns out, Sabrina works in construction and purchases old homes to renovate, and Sabrina likes filming dancing tiktoks while taking breaks from work. Just like so many other people trying to have fun on the platform. Now, Sabrina made a video on TikTok trying to put these conspiracy theories to rest while sobbing. Saying, I didn't do anything wrong, and I'm sick of being hurt by this. I'm just like anyone else. I just want to be loved and accepted and I'm not. I'm getting treated worse than anyone coming out like me. I would have posted Sabrina's audio here, but honestly, it's a really hard to listen to because it's just so sad. And I think it shows that there is a baseline assumption around who the Internet is for and who it isn't for. And who could expect to feel safe and seen there? People compared Sabrina to Buffalo Bill, the serial killer from Silence of the Lambs, just because Sabrina wears flashy blouses on high heels. It should go without saying that that does not mean someone is a serial killer. And that compares it alone is so cruel. It also comes off as a really classist. Just because Sabrina is spending time in a dilapidated home, that does not mean that someone must be being held against their will there. And while some users have taken down their videos from TikTok, making these kinds of accusations about Sabrina as of me recording this, there are still plenty of videos on that platform, racking up views, who still maintain that something unseemly is going on in Sabrina's home. Even after Sabrina tearfully spoke out. So where does it end? Now I get why engaging in a conspiracy theory online can seem fun. Who doesn't like the feeling of figuring out a puzzle? But when thousands of people are using someone's actual life or this kind of cruel entertainment, it's not just harmless fun. And I get that thinking that you're putting together the clues to bring down a serial killer from your phone. It's probably a lot more exciting to believe than the reality that there are people out there that are living very different lives from our own. And that that doesn't make them any less human. Or me they deserve to be cruelly harassed. Just for making videos on the Internet. Got a story about an interesting thing in tech, I just want to say hi, you can reach us at hello at tango dot com. You can also find transcripts for today's episode at tango dot com. There are no girls on the Internet was created by me, Richard Todd. It's a production of iHeartRadio and unboss creative. Jonathan Strickland has our executive producer. Tara Harrison is our producer and sound engineer. Michael motto is our contributing producer. I'm your host Bridget Todd. If you want to help us grow, raide and review us on Apple podcasts. For more podcasts.
Progressive Talk 1350 AM
"bridget todd" Discussed on Progressive Talk 1350 AM
"I'm Bridget Todd. And this is there are no girls on the Internet. What's wrong? Prince David Bowie, Les Paul. When we think about the intersection of tech innovation and music, it's not difficult to think about men who fit the bill. But what about all the female digital visionaries and their impact time music? Enter Melissa Arnette Elliott, also known as Missy Elliott. Okay, So some of you might be thinking that maybe this whole episode is just an excuse for me to take a little break from the depressing news cycle and talk about my love of Missy Elliott. And you know what? You're not totally wrong. But girl has not always gotten credit for the visionary that she is. Her work is a producer changed the landscape of music in ways that we can still here today. Enter innovative music videos blend science fiction and afrofuturism to throw off outdated, patriarchal chains of what it means to be a black woman. Now we talk a lot about girls squads and feminism and music. But for Missy Elliott that looks like working with other women in the music industry, amplifying their voices and acting as a creative collaborator with them. No, Missy has known for her technical production prowess alongside her longtime creative collaborator, Timbaland. She's written and produced scores of songs for other artists, many of whom are women whose work she helped find mainstream success. Here's just a little taste of the music she's helped produced. Please your phone Aaliyah, one in a million. This one and Sierra 12 step step. Love him. No 17. Oh, two or my girls at Beyonce Signs side as me, Hashami. I loved her bump. I see. A lot of people don't know a lot of the records I've written or produced, so that's a highlight for me as a woman, Elliott told The Associated Press. I always said If a man had done half the records that I've done, we would know all about it. And Missy is 100%, right. It's almost hard for me to overstate the impact. Missy Elliott's work has had on me personally, and she's actually one of the reasons I wanted to start this podcast at all. One day I was thinking about all the different ways she shaped music and music videos and culture and the way music is made, and I thought, Why aren't we constantly talking about Missy Elliott all the time? I was even Missy Elliott for Halloween when I was younger, check the photo on the show description. If you want to see evidence, Missy grew up in the south in a small town called Portsmouth, Virginia. And I'm from a small town. Virginia, too. We both grew up in the church singing in church choirs. Summer of 1997.
Progressive Talk 1350 AM
"bridget todd" Discussed on Progressive Talk 1350 AM
"No girls on the Internet is a production of I heart radio and unbossed creative. Through those roads. I'm Bridget Todd. And this is there are no girls on the Internet. That's wrong. Prince David Bowie, Les Paul. When we think about the intersection of tech innovation and music, it's not difficult to think about men who fit the bill. But what about all the female digital visionaries and their impact on music? Enter Melissa Arnette Elliott, also known as Missy Elliott. Okay, so some of you might be thinking that maybe this whole episode is just an excuse for me to take a little break from the depressing news cycle and talk about my love of Missy Elliott. And you know what? You're not totally wrong. But Carl has not always gotten credit for the visionary that she is her work as a producer changed the landscape of music in ways that we can still here today. And her innovative music videos blends science fiction and afrofuturism to throw off outdated, patriarchal chains of what it means to be a black woman. We talk a lot about girl squads and feminism in music. But for Missy Elliott that looks like working with other women in the music industry, amplifying their voices and acting as a creative collaborator with them. No, Missy is known for her technical production prowess alongside her longtime creative collaborator, Timberland. She's written and produced scores of songs for other artists, many of whom are women whose work she helped find mainstream success. Here's just a little taste of the music she's helped produced. He gently ease your Olea one in a million million Sierra 12. Step two step love it. No 17. Oh, two or my girl that Beyonce a fines the same side as me. Hand show me I love her, but I see a lot of people don't know A lot of the records have written or produced, so that's a highlight for me as a woman, Elliott told The Associated Press. I always said If a man had done half the records that I've done, we would know all about it. Missy is 100% right. It's almost hard for me to overstate the impact. Missy Elliott's work has had on me personally, and she's actually one of the reasons I wanted to start this podcast at all. One day I was thinking about all the different ways she shaped music and music videos and culture and the way music is made, and I thought, Why aren't we constantly talking about Missy Elliott all the time? I was even Missy Elliott for hollow me when I was younger. Check the photo on the show description. If you want to see evidence, Missy grew up in the south in a small town called Portsmouth, Virginia. And I'm from a small town. Virginia, too. We both grew up in the church singing in church choirs. The summer of 1997 was a particularly.
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"bridget todd" Discussed on Unladylike
"Are no girls on the internet. it will be great if the internet was dislike. Egalitarian place where your identity never showed up never made a difference never mattered. But that's just not true. We know that women. Lgbtq folks people of color black women weeks the internet in very different ways that our white counterparts in so i feel that our internet experiences are largely informed by this real misunderstanding of what it is like to be a marginalized person on an online space. And so the title is almost sort of like a private joke with myself. Where so many people would have you believe that there are not women and other underrepresented people online when we are there in full force and so many people would have you believe that it doesn't matter what your identity is online but we know that's not true and so i really wanted to have a show. That kind of poked fun at this is completely incorrect notion. That identity doesn't matter when you go online because we know that it does. 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Go to dame products dot com slash unladylike for ten percent off with the code unladylike. We're back with bridget todd. Host of there are no girls on the internet on the last season of her podcast. Bridget dug deep on disinformation specifically. How black and brown identities are weaponized victimized to spread lies online. One particular story really stuck with us from her episode called. How black women tried to save twitter in it. Richard breaks down. How a black feminist named shafiqa hudson called out disinformation how she was ignored. And how ultimately she was proven right so some context back in two thousand fourteen shafiqa. Who goes by at sassy. Crass notice the hashtag end father's day trending on twitter. Shafiqa took a closer look at who is tweeting it out and she noticed that a lot of the accounts appeared to belong to black feminists so think like black women avatars twitter bios full of feminist jargon and go was like oh gee i don't really think any black feminists. Nobody that i know would ever actually be advocating for key. For cancelling bothers us such a weird thin and she noticed something else which that all of these accounts which were trying to sound like black women. They just weren't getting it right. You know they would say things that just like expressions whereas like oh that's not the expression they sounded like white people badly trying to pretend to be black women the way that she describes it as like obviously racist word salad the way that they would use their language and so that was our first giveaway that these were not actually black women but once the hashtag blew up the right wing media made a meal of it. Here's a cringe clip. From fox and friends started out as a joke. But the hashtag end father's day's picking up steam with feminists online with others and social media tweets like and father's day. because it's a celebration of patriarchy and oppression have been popping up all over the place some of these tweets. Here's from tasha. She wrote in. Everyone knows we only need mothers. Why do we even need father's day. Fathers are useless hashtag day. I'll come on just nasty feminist rhetoric that they're not just interested in ending father's day the interesting ending men. That's really what they want. Meanwhile twitter friend of kaz in nasa crockett did some digging and discovered the hashtag was a hoax as if he suspected anonymous trolls were posing as black feminists on twitter. So bridget why do you think that so. Many people especially right wing media fell for the hoax. People who are already predisposed to believing the worst thing imaginable about black women. They're the ones who really fell for. And i think we see that all the time and that is one of the main trips of disinformation online is that they really do rely on. The worst like flattening out are complex identities and they're the worst caricatures of who we actually are but that's that's their bread and butter. That's how they there are so many people out there who are willing and ready to believe and spread these messages. Even if they're lies shafiqa and other black feminists on twitter reported the accounts as fake. But nothing happened so she took matters into your own hands. She started a new hashtag. Your slip is showing to identify and stamp out these bad actors and your slipper showing is shorthand for your being messy and shows like if your slip is hang out from under your dress the way it works is simple wind. Shafiqa spotted and father's day tweets impersonating black women. She'd re tweet them with the hashtag. Your slip is showing but it makes me sad because she should not have to do that. Work right and it should not be up to her to to exert this kind of unpaid labor just to keep her online spaces and community safe. And i think it's such a shame that so often the work of making platforms that we use safer more inclusive better falls to black women that labor is often unpaid and we can have band-aid solutions. We can have bells and whistles that might help but until be content with that fundamental misogyny and racism at the heart. Were not really going to get anywhere and father's day was a ridiculous prank. Compared to what happened in the lead up to the two thousand sixteen election a senate inquiry later found that russian trolls had used fake social media accounts to impersonate black lives activists and black trump supporters to mislead and polarize voters. Then in twenty twenty twitter said it had removed a bunch of fake inflammatory accounts that were impersonating black people. You know the exact same kinds of accounts that shafiqa was trying to get twitter to take down in twenty fourteen by the platform. Didn't say how many accounts or whether it would crack down.