Hallow App Update; Meta Glasses Aren’t Private; Brothel Workers Unionize; Incarcerated Women of True Crime; Gen-Z gender wars – NEWS ROUNDUP!

March 7, 2026

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: Casual news roundup chat between host and producer, diving into tech scandals, internet culture, and social issues with banter and deep dives.
The Key Players:
- Host: Bridget Todd, sharp tech critic and podcaster known for feminist takes on internet misogyny; Producer: Mike, supportive straight man who lets Bridget "cook" on villains while adding skeptical insights.
The Vibe: Intense and educational with fiery outrage at creeps and corporations, lightened by dark humor and absurd stories—perfect "water cooler" fuel for tech skeptics.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

The episode unpacks tech-enabled harms to women, privacy betrayals, and cultural backslides, blending scandal recaps with fresh outrages.

Topic 1: Prayer App Hypocrisy. Update on Hallow app backlash: funders like Peter Thiel (Epstein collaborator) and spokespeople like Russell Brand (rape allegations) undermine its moral high ground.
Topic 2: Tech Privacy Nightmares. Meta glasses footage reviewed by Kenyan contractors exposes bathrooms, sex, and bank details; Google's Gemini AI fuels suicide delusions in a new lawsuit.
Topic 3: Misogyny Amplified by Media & Prisons. True crime podcasts invite incel harassment of incarcerated women; UK bans "semen tributes"; Gen Z men cling to regressive gender roles.
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What you'll learn

1 (03:23) **Hallow App Follow-Up and Listener Responses**
2 (11:04) **Meta Glasses Privacy Scandal**
3 (22:09) **True Crime's Harm to Incarcerated Women**
4 (41:10) **Google Gemini AI Suicide Lawsuit**
5 (62:11) **Brothel Workers Unionize Over AI Likeness Contracts**
6 (67:57) **Gen Z Men Hold More Conservative Gender Views**
7 (73:22) **UK Criminalizes Semen-Defaced Images**

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Show Notes

In this week's News Roundup, Bridget and Producer Mike cover the tech news stories you might have missed.

Hallow app beef update.

Meta sued over false privacy promises about it's glasses. Gee, what a shocker. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo

Google sued for wrongful death after a vulnerable user died by suicide after talking with its chatbot Gemini. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/father-sues-google-claiming-gemini-chatbot-drove-son-into-fatal-delusion/

Brothel workers unite! Workers push back against a contract trying to claim rights to their image. Consider donating to them if you can! https://unitedbrothelworkers.org/

Advocates in the UK have been fighting nonconsensual image-based abuse, and winning. A new law makes the gross category of "semen-images" illegal. It's basically what you think. https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/semen-images-illegal-investigation and for context https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/glamour-campaign-10-downing-street

A powerful piece by Kwaneta Harris & Leigh Goodmark describes the ways True Crime media exploits incarcerated women and makes them vulnerable to predation by creeps. https://truthout.org/articles/incarcerated-women-featured-in-true-crime-media-face-flood-of-sexual-harassment/

A new global poll finds that Gen-Z men are twice as likely as their Baby Boomer grandfathers to hold misogynistic views of gender roles. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-gen-zs-gender-divide-reaches-politics-views-marriage-children-suc-rcna229255

[FUNNY] Pressing 2 for Spanish in the phone system of a Washington State agency leads to unexpected results. https://apnews.com/article/washington-dol-spanish-accent-ai-3a1b8438a5674c07242a8d48c057d5a3#

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