ContraPoints: How Online Politics Became Real Life Doomscroll

My guest is Natalie Wynn, aka ContraPoints, a video essayist and content creator. Part 2: Spotify Premium users can watch our videos ad free. Support the show and get access to all bonus episodes: My conversation with Natalie is a sweeping survey of the online media landscape and recent political history. We discuss deradicalization, conspiracy, polarization, persuasion, justice, retribution, psychology, political philosophy and more. After 2024, the so-called “podcast election” cast new significance onto the role and impact of alt-media. We theorize an approach and arrive at strategic implications for how to move forward.

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ContraPoints: How Online Politics Became Real Life Doomscroll is an episode from Joshua Citarella by Joshua Citarella.

This episode is 03:21:08 long.

This episode was published on Apr 22, 2026.

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