DOOMED with Matt Binder

Eoin Higgins joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss CES, the biggest annual tech conference, and their experience at the event live in Las Vegas. What was the worst tech? Most dystopian? Was there good tech? And what the latest tech trends say about the state of the industry. Also, a discussion about the results of the Iowa Caucus and how the GOP Primary was determined well before that. (Episode from the 1/17/24 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Rayyvana of TYT joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss George Santos and his Cameo selling business, John Fetterman's most recent ridiculousness, the discourse around Palestine in the U.S. media, plus right wing YouTube and Twitch streamers. (Episode from the 12/13/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Elon Musk sues Media Matters! On this episode of DOOMED with Matt Binder, Matt breaks down X / Twitter's lawsuit against Media Matters and how it shows that Musk just doesn't understand social media. (Episode from the 11/21/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

On this episode of DOOMED with Matt Binder, we break down the Hamas attack in Israel and Israel's bombing in Gaza. We discuss how Israel - Palestine is, in the words of Michael Brooks, "not complicated." (Episode from the 10/10/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Conspiracy theorists thought that the emergency alert system test broadcast on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, was going to activate 5G or nanochips in our bodies and turn people who got the COVID-19 vaccine into zombies. There's other stuff too, you'll have to listen to DOOMED host Matt Binder explain! Plus, Matt interviews Justin, the Reddit user whose posts went viral discussing how his QAnon conspiracy theorist landlord shut down the power in his building due to those very conspiracy theories. Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Amanda Moore joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss her time pretending to be a far right devotee and what she discovered while being accepted by its members. Moore breaks down who she met at the events she attended, the range of encounters she experienced, and how the far right reacted to her "infiltration." (Episode from the 8/29/23 livestream show.) Check out Amanda's peice in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/soc... Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Kayla Gogarty, Research Director at Media Matters for America, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Rumble, the right-wing online video platform which has partnered with Fox News to host the first Republican primary debate for the 2024 presidential elections. Kayla will discuss Rumble, what kind of content it typically hosts, the far right and QAnon conspiracy theorist influencers who stream there, and much more. (Episode from the 8/22/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Michael E. Hayden of the Southern Poverty Law Center joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to break down the trial and conviction of Douglass Mackey, the far right social media influencer who went by the name Ricky Vaughn, who was convicted for his "scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote." Hannah Gais joins the show later on as well! (Episode from the 4/19/23 livestream show). Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Bennie Carollo joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss why she left The Young Turks, Cenk and Ana's recent anti-trans comments, being a trans ally, why being explicitly for trans rights is the *correct* and winning position, how transphobia is deeply routed in white supremacy, and much, much more. Check out Bennie's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6DiIQWb0DE . (Episode from the 7/11/23 livestream show) Suppot the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

The battle between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg officially began on Wednesday, July 5th as Meta launched Threads by Instagram, it's Twitter competitor app. On this DOOMED and Scam Economy livestream crossover episode, Matt Binder breaks down the Threads app, the enshittification of Twitter by Elon Musk, how this past week's actions by Musk at Twitter which blocked logged out visitors from accessing Twitter and rate limited logged in users' daily tweet alottment may actually be Musk's worst move at Twitter yet, where the other Twitter alternatives like bluesky, Mastodon, and Spill fit into the equation, what the future of the internet will look like, and is Twitter now actually dying? (Episode from the 7/5/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder