The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini
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The Algorithm Wants Americans To Fight
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9:30Now Playing“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog,” or so the saying goes. The Bitchuation Room was joined this week by Bridget Todd, the creator and host of iHeartRadio's award winning podcast "There Are No Girls on the Internet" as well as communications director for the gender justice group "UltraViolet." So what does it mean when Bridget jokes that “there are no girls on the internet?” Well, on the internet, everyone seems to imagine that they’re just interacting with CIS white men. But there are many people of color and women online as well who often bear the brunt of hate speech and trolling online.
Well before Donald Trump won in 2016, and then everyone subsequently freaked out about online disinformation campaigns, marginalized people on the internet were already calling attention to the bot networks and organized campaigns of disinformation they were seeing. Unfortunately, no one with any ability to do something about that took notice until Donald Trump won in 2016, and then almost fomented a coup in 2020.
Can “Big Tech” reign in online misinformation? Deplatforming is one way to do this that actually works. With Trump off Twitter and Facebook, things have noticeably improved. Critics who said that deplatforming just makes people move to other platforms have been proven wholly wrong, as you can tell since you’re not reading this on Gab or GETTR. Unfortunately, bad faith actors like Trump drive a lot of engagement to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, so tech companies have almost no incentive to actually do something about their dangerous behavior until something bad has already happened, even if everyone saw it coming from a mile away.
Also joining Francesca and Bridget was James Fritz, a comedian who was just recently on Adult Swim. He has an album called "Still Together," available now on ASpecialThing Records.
Recorded July 11th, 2021
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