Internet Hate Machine
Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with people 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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Nov 30, 2022 • 60min
Part Two: The Online & Real Life Harassment of Marginalized Elected Officials
In the conclusion of this two part episode, Bridget continues her conversation with journalist and comedian Francesca Fiorentini to talk through the midterm elections and how online harassment keeps women from succeeding in elected office.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 23, 2022 • 43min
Part One: The Online & Real Life Harassment of Marginalized Elected Officials
In the first installment of this two part episode, we’re joined by journalist and comedian Francesca Fiorentini to talk through the midterm elections and how online harassment keeps women from succeeding in elected office.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 9min
Leslie Jones: How Milo Yiannopoulos Weaponized A Ghostbusters Remake
We're joined by Prop, host of Hood Politics, to discuss the targeted Twitter hate campaign led by Milo Yiannopoulos against comedian & SNL alum Leslie Jones, that stemmed from her casting in the 2016 Ghostbusters remake.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 12, 2022 • 13min
Bonus Episode - RIP Twitter: Elon Musk Blows Up Twitter Verification
This past week demonstrated what happens when you let just anybody buy verification on Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 9, 2022 • 60min
What Elon Musk Could Learn from the #EndFathersDay Hoax
We’re joined by Joelle Monique to revisit the 4chan hoax #EndFathersDay and what it says about impersonation as a destabilization tactic on Twitter. Mikki Kendall's Guardian piece about starting #SolidarityIsforWhiteWomen: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/solidarityisforwhitewomen-hashtag-feminismSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 7, 2022 • 30min
Bonus Episode - Pelosi’s Attacker Credits GamerGate with His Radicalization
Dr. Joan Donavan, research director of Harvard’s Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy and coauthor of the new book Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America, charts how the impact of GamerGate is still shaping our political landscape today. Check out Dr. Donavan’s book MEME WARS: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars-9781635578638/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 2, 2022 • 52min
DongleGate: The Online Harassment Campaign Against Adria Richards
Most people recall GamerGate, but fewer are familiar with DongleGate, the coordinated online harassment campaign against a Black woman tech worker named Adria Richards that happened in 2013. Bridget charts the story of Adria Richards and why it still matters today. The Hacker News post from the fired PlayHaven employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681 Amanda Blum's blog post about the fallout from DongleGate: https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 26, 2022 • 21min
What is the ‘Internet Hate Machine?’
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 19, 2022 • 3min
Introducing: Internet Hate Machine
Our social media platforms are being used to silence marginalized people, disrupt our democracy, and keep all of us more fearful and polarized than ever. Bridget Todd chronicles how our current social and political hellscape started with attacks on Black women that went overlooked. And what we can do to fight back.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
