Question Everything: "I Believed Sandy Hook Was a Hoax" (Bonus)
Long Shadow listeners: Today we’re sharing a great episode of the Question Everything podcast in our feed because it's the perfect crossover between "In Guns We Trust" and "Breaking the Internet."Prop...
25 Mars 47min
Panic World: Russiagate (Bonus)
Long Shadow listeners: Today we’re sharing a great episode of the Panic World podcast in our feed because we think you’ll like it.Panic World is a weekly chat show that explores how the internet warps...
7 Jan 1h 2min
The Red Pill
A toxic army of trolls goes after women in the gaming industry, giving birth to an online movement of disaffected men. This "manosphere" contributes to the resurgence of Donald Trump and a constitutio...
5 Aug 20251h 4min
Going Viral
After the twin disasters of the massacre in Myanmar and the 2016 election, social media undergoes a reckoning in the halls of Congress… until a novel virus uncorks a global pandemic and a contagion of...
29 Juli 202555min
Weapons of Mass Distraction
North Korea hacks a movie studio over a screwball comedy, inspiring America’s enemies to launch cyberattacks against the U.S. To roil an election, one even unleashes a network of trolls pitting ordina...
22 Juli 202544min
Enragement Equals Engagement
With the dawn of the newsfeed, Facebook begins a mass experiment on the human psyche — what we like and hate, what makes us happy and angry. Over the course of a decade, its algorithm drives the world...
15 Juli 202536min
The Facebook Revolution
In Egypt, a ragtag group of young activists uses social media to spark a revolution and remove a dictator from power. They credit Facebook with the fall of the regime… until the platform is turned aga...
8 Juli 202541min
