Internet Hate Machine
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Digital Defiance with B the Way Forward's Brenda Darden Wilkerson
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Internet Hate Machine May Be Over, But The Conversation Continues
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ifeoma Ozoma: The Woman Who Is Trying to Make Tech Safer, Even If It Costs Her
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ifeoma Ozoma has spent her career trying to make the internet safer. At Pinterest, she created clear content policies that earned the company praise. ...
Cecelia Lewis: The Manufactured Moral Panic Around Critical Race Theory
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meghan Markle: Inside the Racist, Sexist Online Hate Campaign Targeting the Royals
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 rep...
Part Two: Why Trump Targeted Two Black Election Workers
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 episo...
Part One: Why Trump Targeted Two Black Election Workers
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 M...
Cuties Movie QAnon Controversy Explains Our Current Moment
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The moral panic around the film Cuties explains why so many right wing extremists are using the “groomer” “child predator” attack to smear the...
Bonus Episode - Elon Musk’s "Twitter Files" Are A Whole Lot of Nothing
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Fil...
Why is Kanye West Trying to Bring Milo Back? w/ Robert Evans
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The last few weeks online have been pretty interesting. Bridget is joined by Behind the Bastards’ Robert Evans, to talk though the whackamole of ext...
Part Two: The Online & Real Life Harassment of Marginalized Elected Officials
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the conclusion of this two part episode, Bridget continues her conversation with journalist and comedian Francesca Fiorentini to talk through the m...
Part One: The Online & Real Life Harassment of Marginalized Elected Officials
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first installment of this two part episode, we’re joined by journalist and comedian Francesca Fiorentini to talk through the midterm election...
Leslie Jones: How Milo Yiannopoulos Weaponized A Ghostbusters Remake
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Prop, host of Hood Politics, to discuss the targeted Twitter hate campaign led by Milo Yiannopoulos against comedian & SNL alum Le...
Bonus Episode - RIP Twitter: Elon Musk Blows Up Twitter Verification
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This past week demonstrated what happens when you let just anybody buy verification on Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What Elon Musk Could Learn from the #EndFathersDay Hoax
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Joelle Monique to revisit the 4chan hoax #EndFathersDay and what it says about impersonation as a destabilization tactic on Twitter....
Bonus Episode - Pelosi’s Attacker Credits GamerGate with His Radicalization
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Joan Donavan, research director of Harvard’s Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Pu...
DongleGate: The Online Harassment Campaign Against Adria Richards
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most people recall GamerGate, but fewer are familiar with DongleGate, the coordinated online harassment campaign against a Black woman tech worker nam...
What is the ‘Internet Hate Machine?’
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Black women are sometimes called “canaries in the coal mine” for online harms. On this preview of Internet Hate Machine, Bridget Todd charts how h...
Introducing: Internet Hate Machine
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our social media platforms are being used to silence marginalized people, disrupt our democracy, and keep all of us more fearful and polarized than ev...