What is the ‘Internet Hate Machine?’

10/26/22 • 20 min

Black women are sometimes called “canaries in the coal mine” for online harms. On this preview of Internet Hate Machine, Bridget Todd charts how harm against Black women online has led to our current social and political landscape.

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Introducing: Internet Hate Machine

Hi, There Are No Girls on the Internet fans! Here's a preview of a new podcast, Internet Hate Machine. Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence women, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with women 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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There Are No Girls on the Internet - What is the ‘Internet Hate Machine?’

Transcript

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My name is bridget Todd, and I am here with my producer, Sophie Hey bridget Hey listeners, so you might already know me from my podcast There are No Girls on the Internet, And as you can probably tell from that title, I make podcasts about the Internet, specifically how people who are traditionally marginalized, so women, black folks, queer folks, trans folks, sex workers, low income folks and the like, have shaped what it means to be on the Inte