Podcast Episodes

Bonus: Cory Doctorow on Sci-Fi Influences & the Social Media Bill of Rights

We had more to talk about with Cory Doctorow than we could fit in this week’s episode. In this bonus ep, the science fiction author and internet rights activist talks to Rabble about being raised by …

Published on 3 hours ago

Cory Doctorow on Escaping Big Tech, Privacy Battles & “Enshittification”

Season 1 Episode 9

Sci-fi isn’t about hypothetical technologies, but rather about challenging the social impact of that tech, says author and activist Cory Doctorow. And in the real world, we must be just as conscious …

Published on 2 days, 3 hours ago

Taylor Lorenz on Moral Panics, Tech Villains & Protecting Free Expression

Season 1 Episode 8

Journalist and Power User host Taylor Lorenz has reported on the fall of Vine, influencers who accept "dark money," and the proliferation of far-right content on Substack, just to name a few. Today o…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

Chris Messina on Hashtags, Google+ & the Unintended Consequences of Building Social Media

Season 1 Episode 7

Chris Messina is best known for co-founding BarCamp and giving Web 2.0 the hashtag.

Now on Revolution.Social, he joins Rabble to talk about the bigger picture of what has gone right, and wrong, with…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on AI Slop, Quality Content & Social Media Fragmentation

Season 1 Episode 6

After the introduction of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, the blogging platform Medium got ten times busier, says CEO Tony Stubblebine — and that was not a good thing.

"Most of it was slop," he …

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

"Invisible Rulers" author Renee DiResta on Propaganda, Disinformation, & Online Abuse

Season 1 Episode 5

Renee DiResta has spent a decade tracking how small groups can hijack global conversations — and why the same tactics still work today. The author of "Invisible Rulers" and a leading academic researc…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Substack CEO Chris Best on Democratizing Media, Content Moderation & Freedom of Speech

Season 1 Episode 4

"If you're a consistent advocate for freedom of the press, you will unfortunately have occasion to quarrel with every party and every side of the political spectrum," says Substack CEO Chris Best.

A…

Published on 1 month ago

Why We Need a New Social Media Bill of Rights

Thanks for listening to Revolution.Social! in this bonus episode, recorded live at Web Summit Vancouver in May 2025, Rabble speaks with Penny Daflos, reporter for CTV News Vancouver. They discuss Rab…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Yoel Roth on Banning Trump, Battling Bots & the Difficult Job of Trust & Safety

Season 1 Episode 3

"Content moderation decisions are like assholes," says Yoel Roth, the former head of trust & safety for Twitter. "Everybody's got one."

The underrated challenge of working in trust and safety is that…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Kara Swisher on Tech Founders' Flaws & Why Social Apps Are the New Cigarettes

Season 1 Episode 2

The founders of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter never cared about the lofty ideals they claimed, says longtime tech journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher.

"I never thought they were…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago