dot com: The Hacking

All roads lead to Rome. Or, in this case, San Francisco. Katie’s journey into the complex, fantastic and infuriating world of Reddit over the last five episodes has been shadowed by the murky office of the admin; so for the final episode of the season, Katie’s looking at the story of the people really pulling the strings. She’ll find a tale that involves shock appointments and rush dismissals, suicide, and a sinister emphasis on profit over people. And she’ll be looking to the future: in a world where the tensions between hate speech and censorship, accountability and anonymity are getting ever greater…can Reddit survive? You can get ad-free versions of this show by subscribing to the Crowd Stories channel on Apple Podcasts.

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The Donald subreddit was the most controversial moral dilemma on the stained map of Reddit's history. One of the most active subs of all time, it was incredibly effective at spreading and disseminating memes about the soon-to-be-President - and it very quickly got a crooked reputation. Rife with misogyny, white supremacy, anti-Semitism, homophobia and transphobia, the questions stands: Why was it allowed to stay on the site for five long years? And did it have a role to play in Trump's shock win..? You can now subscribe to the Crowd Stories channel on Apple Podcasts for ad-free versions of this show.

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"Reddit is the ultimate forum for fans," apparently. But where are they? The fan, the kook, the ultimate fanatic? In this episode Katie's kicking drama to the curb, and looking at the wholesome and nerdily positive sides to Reddit; and giving time to the unpopular thought that actually, there is some good out there. Lots of it.

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It's 2014 and Reddit's at the centre of one of the biggest scandals to hit Hollywood. A hacker has released nude photos of over a hundred celebs onto the internet, and the sub 'The Fappening' has cropped up; the fastest-growing sub of all time. 'Celebgate,' people are calling it. Who was behind the leak, though, and why did they do it? And what do the leaks show about the strings Reddit pulls in the world around us Is the site a mirror of society, reflecting the good and the bad? Or is there a point where that reflection morphs into something more malign; so that it's no longer just a mirror for our ills, but a firestarter?

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Drama. With a capital 'D'. Reddit's full of it. Anti-vaxxers vs. science, Bible Belters vs. atheists, racists vs. the rest. It's teaming with trolls, discussions, shouting matches, protests. And, in this episode, Katie's snuffling it out. What she'll find? That this is the only website on the internet where people have taken their masks off and bare all. The fine, and the foul.

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In late 2020 a comment was posted on the social media website Reddit. It might have been inconsequential. Forgotten. But it wasn't, and soon the world's eyes were on the site. It tipped the first domino that, a few months later, would flip the stock market upside down and set Wall Street on fire. This is the story of David and Goliath, and the start of presenter Katie Puckrik's journey into the world of this lesser-known website - where communities flourish and irony reigns supreme.

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