Revolution.Social

Revolution.Social

Rabble a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath

Episodes 45
Avg. Duration 59m
Activity Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (9)
Since Jul 2025
Latest Episode May 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
72%
Hosting
feeds.megaphone.fm

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About This Podcast

A podcast about the future of social media and reclaiming our digital communities. Revolution.Social is hosted by technologist and community advocate Rabble, a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath — who was Twitter’s first employee and hired Jack Dorsey. In weekly interviews, Rabble will interview thought leaders, technologists, academics, and more about the need for a new social media "bill of rights." Just as the original Bill of Rights protected individual freedoms from government overreach, we need fundamental protections from corporate control and surveillance capitalism. This is the start of a conversation about what developers are building, how they're building it, and what consumers need to be asking for. Guests will include Jack Dorsey (former CEO & co-founder of Twitter); Kara Swisher (host of On with Kara Swisher, co-host of Pivot); Cory Doctorow (science fiction author & former editor of Boing Boing); and Taylor Lorenz (founder of User Mag, host of Power User).

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Recent Episodes

S1E38 How Social Media Platforms Use Regulation To Stifle Competition

May 14, 2026 1h 15m

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?

Apr 30, 2026 57m

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

Apr 16, 2026 46m

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?

Apr 02, 2026 1h 7m

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)

Mar 26, 2026 1h 1m

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)

Mar 19, 2026 56m

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)

Mar 12, 2026 1h 8m

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, VidCon. Today,…

S1E31 An Alternate History of Social Media (with Ben Werdmuller)

Mar 05, 2026 1h

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)

Feb 26, 2026 1h 26m

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)

Feb 19, 2026 1h 13m

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)

Feb 12, 2026 1h 8m

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)

Feb 05, 2026 32m

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)

Jan 29, 2026 56m

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

Jan 24, 2026 12m Bonus

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)

Jan 22, 2026 57m

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)

Jan 15, 2026 51m

"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)

Jan 08, 2026 1h

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

Jan 01, 2026 48m Bonus

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…

S1E22 Decentralized Social Media for 40 Million+ Users (with Bluesky’s Jay Graber)

Dec 18, 2025 42m

When Bluesky hit its millionth user, it had fewer than 10 employees; today, it has more than 40 million users, but only 30 workers; that means that “everyone on the team wears a lot of hats,” says…

S1E21 Team Human vs. Tech Monopolies (with Douglas Rushkoff)

Dec 11, 2025 49m

Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, author, and host of the Team Human podcast, who has been advocating for human-centered technology since the early '90s. He believes venture capital turned social…

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