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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47 min
Digital Defiance with B the Way Forward's Brenda Darden Wilkerson
Tech shapes almost every aspect of our daily lives. And yet the tech we use has been controlled by a select few for far too long. On the new show B the Way Forward, Bridget talks t…
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39 min
Internet Hate Machine May Be Over, But The Conversation Continues
In the final episode of Internet Hate Machine, we look back on where we’ve been and where we’re going. Plus some big news from Cool Zone Media!See omnystudio.com/listener for priva…
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1 h 06
Ifeoma Ozoma: The Woman Who Is Trying to Make Tech Safer, Even If It Costs Her
Ifeoma Ozoma has spent her career trying to make the internet safer. At Pinterest, she created clear content policies that earned the company praise. In return, she was targeted an…
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1 h 06
Cecelia Lewis: The Manufactured Moral Panic Around Critical Race Theory
Bridget is joined by James Stout to discuss Cecilia Lewis, a Maryland educator who was targeted and run out of Georgia after being hired to lead a DEI program in Cherokee County sc…
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1 h 08
Meghan Markle: Inside the Racist, Sexist Online Hate Campaign Targeting the Royals
Bridget is joined by BuzzFeed's Ellie Hall to discuss the online hate campaign facing Meghan Markle and the harassment Ellie herself has faced for reporting on it. Refinery 29's: "…
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39 min
Part Two: Why Trump Targeted Two Black Election Workers
Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss are heroes for their testimony before the Jan 6th commission, but they shouldn’t have to be. In part two of this episode, Bridget continues her conversati…
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36 min
Part One: Why Trump Targeted Two Black Election Workers
Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss are heroes for their testimony before the Jan 6th commission, but they shouldn’t have to be. The Daily Zeitgeist’s Miles Gray joins Bridget to discuss wha…
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50 min
Cuties Movie QAnon Controversy Explains Our Current Moment
The moral panic around the film Cuties explains why so many right wing extremists are using the “groomer” “child predator” attack to smear their enemies todaySee omnystudio.com/lis…
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51 min
Bonus Episode - Elon Musk’s "Twitter Files" Are A Whole Lot of Nothing
On her other tech podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet, Bridget explored how Elon Musk keeps trying to make fetch happen with the “Twitter Files,” by releasing internal Twitt…
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49 min
Why is Kanye West Trying to Bring Milo Back? w/ Robert Evans
The last few weeks online have been pretty interesting. Bridget is joined by Behind the Bastards’ Robert Evans, to talk though the whackamole of extremists popping back up online a…
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60 min
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 onlin…
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43 min
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 keep…
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1 h 08
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…
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13 min
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.
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60 min
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…
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30 min
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…
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52 min
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 happene…
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21 min
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…
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3 min
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 ho…