Question Everything: "I Believed Sandy Hook Was a Hoax" (Bonus)
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Panic World: Russiagate (Bonus)
Long Shadow listeners: Today we’re sharing a great episode of the Panic World podcast in our feed because we think you’ll like it. Panic Wor...
The Red Pill
A toxic army of trolls goes after women in the gaming industry, giving birth to an online movement of disaffected men. This "manosphere" con...
Going Viral
After the twin disasters of the massacre in Myanmar and the 2016 election, social media undergoes a reckoning in the halls of Congress… unti...
Weapons of Mass Distraction
North Korea hacks a movie studio over a screwball comedy, inspiring America’s enemies to launch cyberattacks against the U.S. To roil an ele...
Enragement Equals Engagement
With the dawn of the newsfeed, Facebook begins a mass experiment on the human psyche — what we like and hate, what makes us happy and angry....
The Facebook Revolution
In Egypt, a ragtag group of young activists uses social media to spark a revolution and remove a dictator from power. They credit Facebook w...
Establishing Connection
At the dawn of the new millennium, the internet yields powerful tools for coordinating and organizing online. From the 9/11 hijackers to fla...
The End of the World as We Know It
The internet as we know it today is a harrowing landscape. But in its quirky infancy, the web changed everything about how we lived, shared,...
Trailer: Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet
When was the last time you felt good about the internet? Today’s online landscape is a harrowing one. People screaming at each other on soci...
Generation Lockdown
Raised on active shooter and lockdown drills, Gen Z has endured an onslaught of violence — and emerged inspiring a wave of activism, a power...
A Good Guy with a Gun
Easy to handle and easy to conceal, handguns went boom in the 2000s, the same moment when many Americans — falsely and tragically — began to...
The Right to Bear AR-15s
After a devastating, now largely forgotten, mass-shooting prompted lawmakers to take aim at assault weapons in the 1990s, their ban backfire...
The Hardliners
In the 1980s, a pair of intimidating NRA leaders recast the organization in their own imposing images as the group went on an all-out offens...
Shall Not Be Infringed
The Second Amendment may have begun as a Constitutional afterthought, but a late 20th-century ideological shift caused some to view it as a...
A Uniquely American Problem
Mass shootings have plagued the U.S. for generations. But in 1999, when shots rang out in a suburban Denver school, it was different. What c...
Trailer: Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust
This season host Garrett Graff, in collaboration with The Trace, recounts how a very specific, carefully manufactured fear has driven explos...
January 6: Day of the Rope
Emboldened by COVID lockdown protests and fighting Black Lives Matter demonstrators, far-right extremists and white power groups prepare to...
MAGA: American Carnage
After Trump’s election, far-right extremism explodes, and internet racism boils over into the real world. From Charleston to Charlottesville...
The Bundys: A Call to Arms
When the government seizes Cliven Bundy’s cattle over unpaid grazing fees, militias like the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers—which are...