Carlos Maza started posting videos on YouTube, and ran afoul of a guy who reminded him of his high school bullies. He asked YouTube to intervene, and then things got extremely complicated.
Further Reading:
Carlos Maza's video series Strikethrough
Mark Bergen on how toxic videos became more common on YouTube
Megan Farokhmanesh's article about Google's LGBTQ employees and their reaction to the company's policy decisions
Kevin Roose's "The Making of a YouTube Radical" 
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#145 Louder

"'A podcast about the internet' that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it." - The Guardian. Hosted by Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi from Gimlet.

Society & Culture

Personal Journals

History

Philosophy

Places & Travel

Technology

Tech News

Podcasting

Gadgets

Software How-To

Documentary

PJ Vogt introduces his new show, Search Engine, where he digs into all kinds of questions, big and small. On this episode: why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything? 

You can find the concluding episode of the story here. 

To find more episodes of Search Engine or to submit a question to the show, go here.
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Search Engine with PJ Vogt

One last thing before we go.
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#189 Goodbye All

Inspired by @depthsofwikipedia, this week we dive deeper into three of our favorite weird Wikipedia pages.
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#188 Into the Depths

We'll be back in a few weeks, in the meantime we're introducing a new show from Gimlet called Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
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Introducing: Stolen - Surviving St. Michael's

Some news: Emmanuel and Alex will be stepping away from making the show. And this iteration of Reply All will be ending in late June.
This isn’t a decision that was made by any one person. Reply All has always been a super collaborative project which is what we’ve loved so much about making it. Ultimately, staff who have been working on this show for a long time – in some cases five, six, seven years at this point – are ready to pursue other things.
Making this show has been an incredible pleasure. Thank you all so much for listening.
We hope you join us for our remaining episodes, including our last one, on June 23rd.
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#145 Louder

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