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S1E40 Vine Was Chaos. That’s Why It Worked.
What happens when you take Larry King’s studio, a crack production team, improv comedy, internet chaos, and the earliest generation of Vine creators?You got Behind The Vine.Eric Artell, the former…
S1E39 OG Viner on How the Creator Economy is Broken
He hit a million followers on Vine before “creator” was even a job title. Now Reggie Couz (an OG Viner) sits down with Rabble to answer the question that haunts every creator: Wwhat happens when the…
S1E38 How Social Media Platforms Use Regulation To Stifle Competition
Are we regulating the wrong tech problems? Many opponents of Big Tech cheered recent lawsuits that found Meta and YouTube liable for violating consumer protection laws and designing their products to…
S1E37 Can We Bring Vine Back From the Dead?
Is 2026 the new 2016? Back then, we didn't know that Facebook could win or lose elections, and become weaponized, that Gamergate-style harassment would take over politics, or that we were about to…
S1E36 Why the Algorithm Loves a Villain, And How to Beat It
When the internet is full of distortions, fake news, and AI-generated slop, how can facts and journalism rise to the top? Former BBC and Vice journalist Sophia Smith Galer has one possible way to…
S1E35 Why does the internet feel worse than it used to?
From scams and spam to platforms we don’t control, many of the systems shaping our online lives feel increasingly broken. In this episode of Revolution.Social, Rabble (Twitter’s first employee) sits…
S1E34 Ethical Venture Capital: Why Social Media Needs a Conscience (with Brad Burnham & Zoe Weinberg)
In an era of hypergrowth and enshittification, can venture capitalists win by investing with conscience? Today on Revolution.Social, Rabble talks to Union Square Ventures co-founder Brad Burnham and…
S1E33 Escaping Algorithmic Binds: Creators vs. Corporate Platforms (w/ Bridget Todd & Rudy Fraser at SXSW)
The biggest social media platforms in the world have alienated their users and trapped them inside algorithms that only serve corporate interests. But there is good reason to have hope for the future…
S1E32 What Creators Can Do & AI Can’t (with Jim Louderback)
Jim Louderback is a media pioneer: a journalist and columnist who went on to become the CEO of the internet-based television network Revision3, and later of the global events business,…
S1E31 An Alternate History of Social Media (with Ben Werdmuller)
Ben Werdmuller is the Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica and a seasoned technologist who has spent his career building platforms that prioritize social impact and integrity. In 2004, he…
S1E30 Ethics Have Become Optional in Big Tech. We Can Do Better. (with Alex Komoroske)
Alex Komoroske spent over a decade at Google overseeing key initiatives for ads, Chrome, and Maps, before running Corporate Strategy at Stripe. At heart, he's a champion for the open web. Today, as…
S1E29 Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Moral Compass (with Anil Dash)
Anil Dash is a pioneering technologist, advocate for ethical tech, and former CEO of Glitch, who currently serves on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Looking back on his career, he…
S1E28 “I've Never Been More Optimistic” (Flipboard’s Mike McCue On the Open Social Web)
Mike McCue has seen a lot of changes over the years to the open web. He was an executive at Netscape, which helped liberate the web from AOL's walled garden; he served on the board of Twitter but…
S1E27 Building Community vs. Building an Audience (with VidCon’s Jacques Keyser)
VidCon programming director Jacques Keyser says there’s a big shift happening in social media: Creators who once lived and died by the algorithm are increasingly looking for ways to “own” their…
S1E26 The Battle for Digital Freedom and Why KOSA Ain’t It (with Evan Greer)
Evan Greer is a director at Fight for the Future, the digital rights organization that helped organize the SOPA blackout and continues to fight for an internet where ordinary people have a voice. As…
S1 An Update on diVine: Joyscrolling, AI Filtering, and Trust & Safety
Rabble and Alice Chan, Revolution.Social's host and executive producer, share an update on diVine, the new social video app that's bringing back the spirit of Vine and real human creativity (no AI…
S1E25 Open Source Safety Tools for Everyone (with Camille François)
Camille François, assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, has spent her career at the frontlines of trust and safety, including as a principal…
S1E24 Social Media Should Be Public Infrastructure (with Ben Cerveny)
"My thesis is that humans invent things all the time, and for the first 30 years, we call them technology," says Ben “Neb” Cerveny, president of the Foundation for Public Code. "And then if they…
S1E23 AI Slop Is Killing the Joy of the Internet (with Bridget Todd)
Bridget Todd is the host of the podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, and a longtime commentator on how platforms shape culture. And she says the…
[Re-Air] What's Next for Jack Dorsey After Twitter and Bluesky
Happy new year to all! Today, we're re-airing the first episode of Revolution.Social, an interview with Jack Dorsey. We'll be back next week with a new interview about the future of social…
