Has Hunter Biden fumbled the bag?
After years spent sheltering from the public gaze, Hunter Biden re-entered the mainstream consciousness last summer via a surprise YouTube appearance alongside prominent alternative media figure Andre...
25 Sep 34min
Why deepfake wizards went underground
Sexualised deepfakes by commission - until administrators shut down a popular request forum earlier this year, self-styled 'wizards' were offering this service at scale via the imageboard site 4chan. ...
18 Sep 31min
How Charlie Kirk achieved internet immortality
A year since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, social media users are marking what has controversially become known as the 'Kirkiversary'. Far from the enduring political legacy...
11 Sep 29min
Angel Vic and the truth about hustle culture
It's the latest example of an influencer's digital persona disintegrating before our eyes. For several years, Angel Victoria Murdock has been portraying a life of self-made success, from real estate d...
4 Sep 34min
Lindsay Clancy and the age of TikTok trials
A Massachusetts jury are deliberating in the shocking case of Lindsay Clancy, a mother who admits to killing her three young children amid suffering, her lawyers argue, extreme post-partum psychosis. ...
27 Aug 38min
Everybody wants to be Ellie Ellis
How did a 16-year-old girl with no prior online presence manage to gain more than 700k TikTok followers within a week of her first post? On this episode, we discuss the theories behind Ellie Ellis' un...
21 Aug 38min
Exposed: the faceless accounts inflaming the Ceuta crisis
After roughly 78,000 migrants made the journey from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in a matter of hours at the end of July, reporters across the world were quick to identify the role of socia...
14 Aug 30min
A grievance syndicate is defrauding young men
The manosphere is just the tip of the iceberg - that's the premise of a new report, shared exclusively with Top Comment, about the so-called male grievance industry. Its author, Kristina Wilfore, has ...
7 Aug 33min
