Podcast Episodes

Group Chats: The Dark Matter of American Politics

The thing about social media when it was created was that it was public. Ideas shared were debated for all to see. Today much of that is happening behind closed doors—in group chats.

Ben Smith, edit…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

The bots are taking over

The bots are here to stay, and they're everywhere. The trouble is, learning how to spot them.

On this week's episode of Endless Thread, Ben and Amory discuss two stories from Reddit about undercover…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Encore: The internet's fight over dinosaur emoji

A few years ago, we brought you the story of how dinosaur emoji had entered the debate about trans rights.

We were reminded of this episode recently when a White House memorandum lambasted NPR for s…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Boy do we have a rant for you

It's rant season. Or is it? When is it *not* rant season? In this week's episode of Endless Thread, Ben and Amory discuss two very different, very viral, rants from Reddit. One is about how the curre…

Published on 5 months ago

Find Our Friends

At any given time, 110 people can tell you exactly where James Tatter is.

Every single iPhone user has the Find My app on their phone, which allows them to share their location with friends and fami…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Introducing NHPR's "The Final Days of Sgt. Tibbs"

Endless Thread is thrilled to introduce you to a new podcast from our friends at NHPR’s Document team. That’s the team behind other great narrative shows like Bear Brook and The 13th Step.

For the p…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Nothing Violent

There's a conspiracy theory on Reddit right now suggesting that Reddit is using aggressive tools to hide posts praising or supporting Luigi Mangione's alleged execution-style killing of the CEO of Un…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Introducing Levittown, new podcast from Kaleidescope and Bloomberg

Have you ever been deepfaked? Or maybe this is just a new fear – that photos of you end up online that are you – but not really you? What would you do? For an increasing number of people – especially…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Toyota Hilux trucks - why are they popular online and in war zones?

In April of 2024, a group of aid workers were killed by Israeli Defense Forces while bringing food to Central Gaza. The IDF had alleged that its military analysts had identified a gunman on top of on…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

How to responsibly leak information to the press

Well, the messaging app Signal has been in the news recently, thanks to a snafu in which prominent federal defense officials mistakenly added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to a gr…

Published on 6 months ago