Think twice about Temu; Is Facebook giving up on political content?; Abortion data sold by data brokers; People come together to destroy a self-driving car. NEWS ROUNDUP!

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Meta announces they will stop promoting "political" content, kicks the can on what "political" means. Internet shopping company Temu ran ads during the Super Bowl, but an awful lot of people claim that their app compromised their private information, and experts say it looks like malware. We don't recommend installing it! An unscrupulous anti-abortion company used geolocation data from a data broker to target people who had visited clinics with a national abortion misinformation campaign. On the streets of San Francisco strangers came together, put aside their differences, and joined forces to destroy a self-driving Waymo car. It's a news roundup!

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash drivers in the U.S. to strike on Valentine’s Day for fair pay: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/uber-lyft-doordash-drivers-us-strike-valentines-day-fair-pay-rcna138450

Temu app contains ‘most dangerous’ spyware in circulation: class action lawsuit: https://www.fashiondive.com/news/temu-class-action-lawsuit-data-collection/699328/

Would you buy this Temu purse? https://www.instagram.com/p/Crl1copvr_u/

Instagram and Threads will no longer promote ‘political’ content. No one knows what they define as ‘political’ but it's a safe bet that (Daniel Day Lewis Voice) There Will Be Bias. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/success/instagram-threads-political-content/index.html

A data broker company tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations around the country, then sold the data to fuel an anti-abortion misinformation ad campaign, senator says: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/planned-parenthood-location-track-abortion-ads-00141172

Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-02-13/ai-protest-at-openai-hq-in-san-francisco-focuses-on-military-work?leadSource=reddit_wall

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251/waymo-driverless-taxi-fire-vandalized-video-san-francisco-china-town

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans believe Taylor Swift is involved in an election conspiracy theory: https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_US_021424/

Weird times for media outlets: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event

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0:00.0	There Are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.
0:12.0	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:17.7	Welcome to There Are No Girls on the Internet, where we explore the intersection of identity, social media, and technology.
0:23.1	And this is another installment of our weekly roundup of news stories that you might have missed on the Internet.
0:29.2	Mike, happy day after Valentine's Day. Did you see that all of the lift drivers and Uber drivers and DoorDash folks were striking. They were doing a Valentine's Day strike for better wages.
0:42.3	I did, and I love to see it. I love to see people and workers taking collective action to demand better pay, respect, increase their visibility.
0:52.8	Love to see it. Okay. So I agree with all of that
0:55.7	plus plus plus plus plus to all of that. However, I have to admit that even though I talk so much
1:01.0	crap about Uber and Lyft and DoorDash and the way that they run their companies on this podcast,
1:06.1	I do use those services. Like I take Uber and Lyft a lot here in D.C. where I live. And so this news that
1:13.7	Uber drivers and Lyft drivers were striking on Valentine's Day and asking folks not to break the
1:19.2	strike and cross the picket lines and use those services, set me into a little bit of an existential
1:24.1	tailspin because, I don't know, if folks live in D.C., you know what I'm
1:29.1	talking about. Like, I've lived in cities my whole life and I've lived in D.C. for the longest.
1:34.2	And I will say Uber and Lyft have really changed the landscape of the city. And it's interesting.
1:41.0	I was like, how am I going to get to my, I meant to go to dinner. Like,
1:44.8	what am I going to do? Should I drive? But if I am drinking, am I risking a DUI? Like,
1:50.2	is it safe to even, to even like be out driving at night? Like, I'm not the best driver. I was like
1:56.5	racking my brain trying to figure out what to do. And wouldn't you know it?
2:02.6	It was completely fine.
2:04.2	All I had to do was walk out of my apartment.
2:06.6	Oh, there's a cab.
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