Posting Through It

Posting Through It episodes:

• 04.14.2023

  Thank you for six amazing years

  Six years and millions of downloads later, it’s now time for me to figure out what’s next. I don’t know what “next” means for me yet, but things will be quieter around here in the near future while I work...

  
• 04.01.2023

  #187: Ladies and Gentlemen, They Got Him (feat. Jordan Uhl)

  Jordan Uhl joins the show for a chat about the criminal indictment against Trump in New York. Then, Jared and Jordan talk about the Right's craven anti-LGBTQ+ response to a mass shooting at a Nashville school. Jordan's Twitter: @JordanUhl Listen to The...

  
• 03.20.2023

  #186: StewAnon (with 'Did Nothing Wrong', feat. Mike Rothschild)

  This episode was made in collaboration with Did Nothing Wrong, a podcast hosted by Jay McKenzie and Griff Sombke, and features a chat with mis/disinfo researcher and author Mike Rothschild. We talk about Jim Stewartson, a self-proclaimed 'anti-disinformation activist' who...

  
• 03.07.2023

  #185: CPAC 2023 and doxing neo-Nazis (feat. Christopher Mathias)

  Christopher Mathias joins the show to talk about his experience at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference, a.k.a. CPAC. Jared and Chris talk about the event's lacking attendance, surrounding scandals, and attacks on trans people. Then, Chris tells us about...

  
• 02.20.2023

  #184: The chatbots are here. What could go wrong? (feat. Ed Zitron)

  Ed Zitron joined the show to talk about Microsoft and Google's planned rollouts of AI chatbots into their search engines and the risks of applying the technology across people's lives recklessly. Ed's Twitter: @EdZitron Ed's Newsletter:https://ez.substack.com/p/degenerative-ai Ed's favorite thing online: https://twitter.com/male_wife_/status/1626825132894199811Support the showSubscribe...

  
• 02.06.2023

  #183: Alex Jones is living in hell (feat. Michael Hayden)

  Michael E. Hayden joins the show to talk about text messages the Southern Poverty Law Center obtained from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The messages reveal a conflict between the on-air persona that Jones embodies and the real Jones that lives...

  
• 01.23.2023

  #182: Flounder with Crowder (feat. Amanda Moore)

  Amanda Moore joins the show to talk about Steven Crowder's contract drama, her latest article for Talking Points Memo about Nick Fuentes and Ye, the conservative gas stove freak-out, and more. Amanda has spent extended time undercover in far-right MAGA...

  
• 01.22.2023

  New Year, New Mailbag (feat. You)

  Jared opened up the Posting Through It voicemail and text message inbox for listener questions and comments. In this episode, he reacts to those messages.Support the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you...

  
• 01.07.2023

  #181: They worked on the Capitol riot investigation (feat. Meghan Conroy & Alex Newhouse)

  Meghan Conroy and Alex Newhouse worked for the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol as investigator and investigative analyst, respectively. They join Posting Through It on the second anniversary of the Capitol riot...

  
• 12.19.2022

  #180: Christian nationalism logs into America (feat. Dr. Anthea Butler)

  Dr. Anthea Butler is a historian of African American and American religion who serves as the Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She joins the show to discuss the influence of Christian nationalism in American politics and...

  
• 12.05.2022

  #179: Are the kids all Right? (feat. Kyle Spencer)

  Kyle Spencer is an award-winning journalist and the author of "Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement." Kyle explains how political activists like Charlie Kirk have risen to power in a new era of internet-forward youth...

  
• 11.21.2022

  #178: 2022 midterms and the chaos that wasn't (feat. Alyssa Kann and Max Rizzuto)

  Max Rizzuto and Alyssa Kann are researchers at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) who Jared used to work with. They join the show to talk about the anti-climactic passing of midterm elections. Is election denialism still as potent as...

  
• 11.07.2022

  #177: Will Elon Musk actually destroy Twitter? (feat. Adam Kovacevich)

  Adam Kovacevich is the founder and CEO of the tech-funded trade group Chamber of Progress, which encourages lawmakers to take pro-tech positions in their policymaking. He joins the show to offer a hopeful view for the future of Twitter under...

  
• 10.24.2022

  #176: Kanye, alt-right superheroes, and 'mule' hunters (feat. Will Sommer)

  Will Sommer is a reporter at The Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on the Qanon conspiracy theory. He also co-hosts the Fever Dreams podcast. Sommer joins the show to run down a few notable stories from...

  
• 10.10.2022

  #175: Trump is Q-posting his way through midterms (feat. Mike Rothschild)

  Mike Rothschild is the author of a great book on the QAnon conspiracy theory and its cultural significance. He joins the show to discuss former President Donald Trump's promotion of content from the conspiracy theory's followers on Truth Social, what...

  
• 09.27.2022

  #174: Web3 is the future... or is it? (feat. Molly White)

  Molly White is the software engineer, Wikipedia editor, and independent researcher behind Web3 Is Going Just Great, a project that chronicles the not-so-fabulous drumbeat of disasters related to cryptocurrency and other web3 products. She joins the show to explain "web3"...

  
• 09.12.2022

  #173: Tim Pool hates mainstream media but his operation depends on it (feat. Robert Silverman)

  Robert Silverman is a reporter who has published some of the most definitive reporting on pro-Trump social media personality Tim Pool to date. As much as Tim Pool may sell his offerings as better alternatives to mainstream media, Robert Silverman...

  
• 08.29.2022

  Election denialist roadshows touring the country and inspiring action — Trapezoid of Discovery (8/29/22)

  Trapezoid of Discovery is the pseudonym used by an information security engineer who has cataloged and refuted claims from election deniers as they’ve toured around the country, drawing crowds and inspiring conspiracy-minded activism. We discuss what these traveling events have...

  
• 08.15.2022

  More like Mar-a-Lame-o if you ask me — Emmi Conley (8/15/22)

  Emmi Conley is an extremism researcher who joins the show to talk about the far-right’s reaction to the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, the revelation that the cringe @BasedMikeLee Twitter account does in fact belong to Sen. Mike Lee, Democrats’ encounters...

  
• 07.16.2022

  Your January 6th Hearing Questions, Answered — Kristen Doerer (7/16/22)

  Kristen Doerer is the managing editor of Right Wing Watch, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to cataloguing the goings-on of the American far-right. (Jared used to work there, and Kristen was his boss!) Kristen joins the show this week to discuss...

  
• 06.27.2022

  A QAnon crypto scheme wrecked investors — Nick Backovic & Ernie Piper (6/27/22)

  Nick Backovic and Ernie Piper are writers at Logically who produce investigative journalism related to online disinformation and conspiracy theories. They join the podcast this week to discuss an investigation they published about a QAnon cryptocurrency scheme that scammed believers...

  
• 06.14.2022

  Echo chambers and doom cycles — Ali Breland (6/14/22)

  Ali Breland is a reporter at Mother Jones who covers online disinformation. He joins the podcast this week to talk about two of his recent essays that confront the flaws and shortcomings of conversations around disinformation, extremism, violence and other...

  
• 05.30.2022

  Online privacy at the impending death of Roe v. Wade — India McKinney (5/30/22)

  India McKinney is the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s director of federal affairs. She joins the podcast this week to talk about privacy and data protection at a time when many anticipate the Supreme Court will roll back reproductive healthcare rights. In...

  
• 05.16.2022

  Elon Musk, the crypto crash, 'Ultra MAGA' and more — Michael E. Hayden (5/16/22)

  Michael E. Hayden is a senior investigative reporter at the Southern Poverty Law Center and good friend of the podcast. Mike joins SH!TPOST this week to chat about all the stories the show missed while it was on break. In...

  
• 04.13.2022

  Flat Earth and why people will believe anything — Kelly Weill (4/12/22)

  Kelly Weill is a reporter at The Daily Beast. She recently published a book on Flat Earth conspiracy theory followers and what their beliefs can tell us about the ways people can arrive at absurdly false beliefs. She joins SH!TPOST...

  
• 03.31.2022

  The latest in lawsuits against Alex Jones and Infowars — Sebastian Murdock (3/31/22)

  Sebastian Murdock is a senior reporter at HuffPost who has been covering lawsuits filed against notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media outlet Infowars. Jared and Sebastian recount some of the latest updates in those lawsuits and what we...

  
• 03.17.2022

  How MAGA became obsessed with 'bio labs'— Justin Ling (3/17/22)

  Justin Ling is a freelance investigative reporter covering misinformation, conspiracy theories, extremism, and national security. He joins SH!TPOST to talk about the recent rise of Russian “bio lab” disinformation among MAGA movement figures. Ling walks listeners through the origins of...

  
• 03.03.2022

  The US activists trying to replicate Canadian trucker protests — Sara Aniano (3/3/22)

  Sara Aniano is a graduate student at Monmouth University studying communication with a focus on the rhetoric of the far-right on social media. She joins SH!TPOST to talk about US activists’ attempts to replicate Canadian trucker-themed protests stateside. In this...

  
• 02.16.2022

  Shameless celebrities are hawking cryptocurrencies to the masses — Jacob Silverman (2/15/22)

  Jacob Silverman is a writer at The New Republic and a critic of the cryptocurrency industry. He joins SH!TPOST to talk about the ongoing wave of celebrities throwing their reputations and star powers behind the cryptocurrency industry and the potential...

  
• 02.02.2022

  The Joe Rogan misinformation experience — Ryan Broderick (2/2/22)

  Ryan Broderick is a journalist covering technology and internet culture. He’s also the author of the Garbage Day newsletter. Ryan joins Jared this episode to discuss the latest standoff in ongoing debates over COVID-19 misinformation on major tech platforms. In...

  
• 01.20.2022

  Correcting Nazi history on Wikipedia — Ksenia Coffman (1/20/22)

  Ksenia Coffman has been contributing edits and research regarding the history of World War II to Wikipedia since 2015, taking deliberate efforts to weasel junk history out of the internet’s go-to collection of information. Ksenia recently stepped out from behind...

  
• 01.08.2022

  Doomed x SH!TPOST: Storming the Capitol, One Year Later

  On the one year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Jared Holt and Matt Binder teamed up for a discussion of the state of play in far-right politics. This conversation originally aired live on Matt’s YouTube...

  
• 01.02.2022

  New Year's Call-In Show (1/1/22)

  On New Year’s Day, Jared took calls from listeners for about an hour and a half live on Twitch. This episode contains audio is from that session, cleaned up and edited for listening in podcast form. Here’s to another year...

  
• 12.09.2021

  Songs on the Computer (12/9/21) ft/ Nick Lutsko

  Nick Lutsko is a musician, producer, and songwriter based out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the creative voice behind beloved Super Deluxe parody songs like “Alex Jones Rants as an Indie Folk Song” and “Donald Trump’s Speeches as an Emo...

  
• 11.26.2021

  Defunding Disinfo (11/26/21) ft/ Claire Atkin

  Claire Atkin is the co-founder of Check My Ads, an organization dedicated to boosting awareness of online advertising’s financing of hate and misinformation and working to drive change against it. She joins SH!TPOST to talk about the work her organization...

  
• 11.12.2021

  A Year in MAGA (11/12/21) ft/ Amanda Moore

  Amanda Moore spent a year undercover within the grassroots of the post-election Trump movement and its various subcultures, attending events and integrating herself with pockets of true believers. All along the way, she recorded what she witnessed with a hidden...

  
• 10.26.2021

  Our Modern Moral Panics (10/26/21) ft/ Michael Hobbes

  Michael Hobbes is a writer and co-host of the podcast “Maintenance Phase.” You may also recognize his voice from the acclaimed podcast “You’re Wrong About.” He joins SH!TPOST to discuss the steady stream of stories and columns from national American...

  
• 10.11.2021

  Airhorns4Truth (10/11/21) ft/ Vic Berger

  Vic Berger is an acclaimed video editor and satirist. He joins SH!TPOST to talk about his path into making his bizarre edits of American culture, the parody potential of the post-Trump years, and what he’s up to these days. This...

  
• 09.30.2021

  Drums in the Distance (9/29/21) ft/ Joe Mulhall

  Joe Mulhall is Head of Research at HOPE not hate and one of the UK's leading authorities on far-right extremism. He joins SH!TPOST for a chat about his latest book, “Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right.”...

  
• 09.17.2021

  Big Disinfo (9/16/21) ft/ Joe Bernstein

  Joseph Bernstein is a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News. He joins SH!TPOST this week to discuss the overly simplistic story of online disinformation that many American audiences have been sold. Joe encourages those interested in understanding online disinformation to pause...

  
• 09.01.2021

  The End is Neigh (9/1/21) ft/ Vera Bergengruen

  Vera Bergengruen is a Washington correspondent for Time Magazine who joins the show to explain why some unvaccinated people are seeking out Ivermectin as a supposed shield against COVID-19. Demand for the drug has overwhelmed many pharmacies, leaving some so...

  
• 08.17.2021

  Pillow Maven Mike Lindell Hosts a 'Cyber Symposium' (8/17/21) ft/ Tina Nguyen

  Puck News national correspondent Tina Nguyen joins SH!TPOST to talk about her time covering Mike Lindell’s 72-hour “Cyber Symposium” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, last week. We’ll talk to her about what she saw, her takeaways, the dang big shrimps on the...

  
• 08.05.2021

  Charlie Kirk's Rage Against the Vaccine (8/5/21) ft/ Jason Campbell

  Media Matters researcher Jason Campbell joins SH!TPOST to discuss GOP youth organizer Charlie Kirk’s skid into anti-vaccine misinformation and scaremongering. In recent months, the GOP wunderkind has voiced hard opposition to public health measures and spread unfounded claims meant to scare...

  
• 08.04.2021

  [Fixed Audio] Tim Pool Gets His Profile (8/4/21) ft/ Robert Silverman

  [Sorry for the hiccup!] Freelance reporter and The Daily Beast contributor Robert Silverman joins SH!TPOST to talk about his blockbuster profile on YouTube news performer Tim Pool, one of the most prominent right-wing aligned personalities on the platform. Robert and Jared talk about...

  
• 07.14.2021

  CPAC in Texas (7/13/21) ft/ Zachary Petrizzo

  (Note: Because host Jared Holt is traveling, his audio quality on this episode is less than normal episodes. He’ll be back in his home studio in August.) Salon reporter Zachary Petrizzo joins SH!TPOST to share observations from his weekend covering CPAC’s...

  
• 07.01.2021

  White (Nationalist) Boy Summer (6/30/21) w/ Ben Lorber

  Political Research Associates research analyst Ben Lorber joins SH!TPOST for a conversation about the status of white nationalist movements in the United States six months after President Joe Biden was sworn into office. This episode will explain a particular branch...

  
• 06.19.2021

  It's Time to Mount an Information Offensive (6/19/21) ft/ Ed Zitron

  Joining SH!TPOST is P.R. guy, writer, and Joker-meme enthusiast Ed Zitron, who wrote a fantastic essay this week that confronts the ways newsrooms have failed to respond to bad-faith internet harassment campaigns against their reporters made in service of right-wing political...

  
• 06.19.2021

  Extra: Jared Holt x Matt Binder on the future of QAnon

  This episode was also broadcast to YouTube, here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This...

  
• 06.02.2021

  Where We Go One We Go Y'all (6/2/21) ft/ Steven Monacelli

  Over Memorial Day weekend and deep in the heart of Texas, powerful MAGA political figures and QAnon believers joined together for a wild-west themed conference inside an event venue made to look like a cowboy town. Joining SH!TPOST is Protean...

  
• 05.22.2021

  Just say no to domestic terrorism laws (5/22/21) ft/ Hannah Gais

  The United States is considering ways to fight the kinds of extremist movements that enabled the attack on the U.S. Capitol and some have suggested creating new domestic terrorism laws that would offer federal agencies with more avenues to address...