KQED|1120 - The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control
Ever wonder where the internet stops and IRL begins? Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor. From internet trends to AI slop to the politics of memes, Close All Tabs covers it all.
How will AI change our jobs and lives? Is the government watching what I post? Is there life beyond TikTok? Host Morgan Sung pulls from experts, the audience, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living.
Morgan Sung is a tech journalist whose work covers the range of absurdity and brilliance that is the internet. Her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more.
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The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control
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29 Jul. 2026
1119-
How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload)
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22 Jul. 2026
1118-
Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark?
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1117-
'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up
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08 Jul. 2026
1116-
Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures
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1115-
The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried
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A Queer History of The Sims
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17 Jun. 2026
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How To Prove You're Not AI
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10 Jun. 2026
1112-
Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap
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03 Jun. 2026
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Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics
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27 Mai 2026
1110-
Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War
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20 Mai 2026
1109-
How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn
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13 Mai 2026
1108-
My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)
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06 Mai 2026
1107-
Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware
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29 Apr. 2026
1106-
The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game
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22 Apr. 2026
1105-
Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits
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15 Apr. 2026
1104-
The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers
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08 Apr. 2026
1103-
Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme
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01 Apr. 2026
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To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair
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25 Mär. 2026
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The Fight for Your Right to Repair
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18 Mär. 2026
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'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis
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11 Mär. 2026
1099-
Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws
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04 Mär. 2026
1098-
Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age
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26 Feb. 2026
1097-
Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall
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18 Feb. 2026
1096-
Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling
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11 Feb. 2026
1095-
How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities
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04 Feb. 2026
1094-
The Real Cost of AI Slop
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28 Jan. 2026
1093-
Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think
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21 Jan. 2026
1092-
Are You Allowed to Record ICE?
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14 Jan. 2026
1091-
Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote
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07 Jan. 2026
1090-
Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat
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17 Dez. 2025
1089-
One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione
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10 Dez. 2025
1088-
What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?
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03 Dez. 2025
1087-
Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’
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19 Nov. 2025
1086-
Where Do Games Go When They Die?
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12 Nov. 2025
1085-
Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality
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05 Nov. 2025
1084-
A Political Reckoning for Twitch?
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29 Okt. 2025
1083-
Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet
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22 Okt. 2025
1082-
Beyond the AI Hype Machine
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15 Okt. 2025
1081-
The All-Seeing Eyes of Modern Dating
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08 Okt. 2025
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In Search of Thock: The Quest for the Perfect Keyboard
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01 Okt. 2025
1079-
AI Prophets and Spiritual Delusions
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24 Sep. 2025
1078-
Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post
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17 Sep. 2025
1077-
23andMe (andGeneticPrivacy)
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10 Sep. 2025
1076-
From MIT’s TeachLab: The Homework Machine
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03 Sep. 2025
1075-
Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating
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27 Aug. 2025
1074-
Before ChatGPT, There Were 'Shadow Scholars'
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20 Aug. 2025
1073-
Does Gen Z Have A Staring Problem?
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13 Aug. 2025
1072-
Is Algospeak Coming for Us?
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06 Aug. 2025
1071-
Save or Scroll: ICE + Influencers, Data Hygiene on Grindr, and Labubu Desserts