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Ksenia Coffman has been contributing edits and research regarding the history of World War II to Wikipedia since 2015, taking deliberate efforts to weasel junk history out of the internet’s go-to collection of information. Ksenia recently stepped out from behind the screen to share her identity and work with Wired magazine. This week, she joins SH!TPOST to talk about her motivations for taking on this monumental task, the reactions her contributions have received in the broader Wikipedia community, and her outlook on the importance of accurate history existing online.
Ksenia’s Twitter account: @KseniaCoffman
Wired magazine’s profile of Ksenia: https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/
Ksenia’s Wiki profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:K.e.coffman
Ksenia’s email: wiki.coffman@gmail.com
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On the one year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Jared Holt and Matt Binder teamed up for a discussion of the state of play in far-right politics. This conversation originally aired live on Matt’s YouTube channel.Jared talked about his latest report published with the Atlantic Council, which outlines the ways domestic extremist movements have evolved since January 6, 2021. You can read it here: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/after-the-insurrection-how-domestic-extremists-adapted-and-evolved-after-the-january-6-us-capitol-attack/
If you’d prefer to watch this episode, you can find it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/9Pnz1FWzI90
Reposted on this feed with permission from Matt Binder.
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On New Year’s Day, Jared took calls from listeners for about an hour and a half live on Twitch. This episode contains audio is from that session, cleaned up and edited for listening in podcast form. Here’s to another year of this god-forsaken podcast!
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Nick Lutsko is a musician, producer, and songwriter based out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the creative voice behind beloved Super Deluxe parody songs like “Alex Jones Rants as an Indie Folk Song” and “Donald Trump’s Speeches as an Emo Song.” More recently, you may have seen him sweaty and red, singing about his longing to be adopted by right-wing pundit Dan Bongino or his love of the Spirit Halloween chain store. He joins SH!TPOST this week to talk about his career, share his understanding of how the internet and politics interact, and more.
Follow Nick on Twitter: twitter.com/NickLutsko
Nick’s vinyl campaign to press some of his songs from Twitter onto LPs: nicklutsko.bandcamp.com/campaign/more-songs-on-the-computer
Nick Lutsko’s Patreon: patreon.com/nicklutsko
Nick’s favorite things online:
HEI Network: heinetwork.tv
Vic Berger’s latest series for VICE: youtu.be/9E0NcmcGdSI
Artist Brielle Garcia: twitter.com/tacolamp
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Claire Atkin is the co-founder of Check My Ads, an organization dedicated to boosting awareness of online advertising’s financing of hate and misinformation and working to drive change against it. She joins SH!TPOST to talk about the work her organization is doing, Dan Bongino’s targeting of her co-founder Nandini Jammi, and what a better future in online advertising looks like.
Learn more about Check My Ads: https://checkmyads.org/
Read the latest ‘Branded’ newsletter: https://checkmyads.org/branded/dan-bongino-is-begging-to-be-cancelled/
Follow Claire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/catthekin
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Amanda Moore spent a year undercover within the grassroots of the post-election Trump movement and its various subcultures, attending events and integrating herself with pockets of true believers. All along the way, she recorded what she witnessed with a hidden microphone. She joins SH!TPOST this week to share her observations and takeaways from a year living and breathing MAGA in its purest forms.
Follow Amanda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/noturtlesoup17
Find Amanda on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/franklin17
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Michael Hobbes is a writer and co-host of the podcast “Maintenance Phase.” You may also recognize his voice from the acclaimed podcast “You’re Wrong About.” He joins SH!TPOST to discuss the steady stream of stories and columns from national American media about the supposed rise of an “illiberal left”—something he argues to be a modern moral panic reinforced by thin hype. Jared and Michael talk through the ways this decades-old right-wing talking point has been laundered through respectable press using the moral panic starter kit and why it’s important to push back against it.
Follow Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark
Listen to Michael on “Maintenance Phase: http://maintenancephase.com/
Read Michael’s writing mentioned during the show: michaelhobbes.substack.com
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Vic Berger is an acclaimed video editor and satirist. He joins SH!TPOST to talk about his path into making his bizarre edits of American culture, the parody potential of the post-Trump years, and what he’s up to these days. This interview was a long time coming and we hope you enjoy!
Vic’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/
Vic's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VicBerger/featured
Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker: https://officialofficehours.com/
Vic's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vicberger
Vic's Albums: https://flannelgraphrecords.bandcamp.com/album/late-enough-to-see-the-moon
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Joe Mulhall is Head of Research at HOPE not hate and one of the UK's leading authorities on far-right extremism. He joins SH!TPOST for a chat about his latest book, “Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right.” In it, Joe provides an exhaustively researched accounting of far-right political movements around the world that he tastefully pairs with vivid recounting of his time spent infiltrating and exposing those movements.
Follow Joe Mulhall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeMulhall_
Read the book: https://bookshop.org/books/drums-in-the-distance-journeys-into-the-global-far-right/9781785787515
Joe’s favorite thing on the internet: TikTok train enthusiast Francis Bourgeois! https://www.tiktok.com/@francis.bourgeois
Programming note: You may notice your host sounds slightly different! Thanks to listener support, SH!TPOST has upgraded our audio recording and processing equipment. We hope that as we learn the new hardware and software that the show’s audio quality will greatly improve.
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Joseph Bernstein is a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News. He joins SH!TPOST this week to discuss the overly simplistic story of online disinformation that many American audiences have been sold. Joe encourages those interested in understanding online disinformation to pause and recognize several fundamental issues with the way some of our current conversations have been framed. These flaws, he argues, are not an end-all to the study of disinformation; rather, he hopes that addressing them will produce better work that contributes to stronger public knowledge.
Follow Joe Bernstein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bernstein
Read his essay on this topic at Harper’s: Bad News: Selling the story of disinformation (https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/)
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Vera Bergengruen is a Washington correspondent for Time Magazine who joins the show to explain why some unvaccinated people are seeking out Ivermectin as a supposed shield against COVID-19. Demand for the drug has overwhelmed many pharmacies, leaving some so desperate in their hunt that they’ve bought and ingested horse paste and other livestock drugs that contain Ivermectin as an active ingredient. At least it’s apple flavored.
Follow Vera on Twitter: @VeraMBergen
Read Vera’s fantastic reporting: How 'America's Frontline Doctors' Sold Access to Bogus COVID-19 Treatments—and Left Patients in the Lurch
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Puck News national correspondent Tina Nguyen joins SH!TPOST to talk about her time covering Mike Lindell’s 72-hour “Cyber Symposium” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, last week. We’ll talk to her about what she saw, her takeaways, the dang big shrimps on the buffet bar, and more.
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Media Matters researcher Jason Campbell joins SH!TPOST to discuss GOP youth organizer Charlie Kirk’s skid into anti-vaccine misinformation and scaremongering. In recent months, the GOP wunderkind has voiced hard opposition to public health measures and spread unfounded claims meant to scare audiences away from protecting themselves against the virus.
Read Jason’s research on the topic here: https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirks-anti-vax-campaign
Follow Jason Campbell on Twitter: @JasonSCampbell
Find a place to get vaccinated at Vaccines.Gov
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Freelance reporter and The Daily Beast contributor Robert Silverman joins SH!TPOST to talk about his blockbuster profile on YouTube news performer Tim Pool, one of the most prominent right-wing aligned personalities on the platform. Robert and Jared talk about what Tim Pool’s early career reveals about his current goings-on and how the YouTuber has quietly built a media micro-empire with little criticism from media watchdogs.
For more background on Tim Pool’s career arc, check out SH!TPOST’s interview with @TimPoolClips here:
Follow Robert on Twitter: @BobSaietta
Read Robert’s latest article:How ‘Coward and Phony’ Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet (https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet)
Check out Robert’s favorite thing online right now:
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(Note: Because host Jared Holt is traveling, his audio quality on this episode is less than normal episodes. He’ll be back in his home studio in August.)
Salon reporter Zachary Petrizzo joins SH!TPOST to share observations from his weekend covering CPAC’s 2021 summer gathering in Dallas, Texas. Petrizzo describes the scenes in the conservative movement’s Lonestar State gathering as an anything-goes spinoff of the national flagship event, where fringe and far-right cultural elements jockeyed for prominence over a receding movement conservatism.
Follow Zachary Petrizzo: @ZTPetrizzo
Read some of Zach’s reporting at Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/zachary_petrizzo
Zach’s favorite thing online: the ongoing sideshow antics of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
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Political Research Associates research analyst Ben Lorber joins SH!TPOST for a conversation about the status of white nationalist movements in the United States six months after President Joe Biden was sworn into office. This episode will explain a particular branch of white nationalism growing popular with younger conservative audiences and gaining footholds within the Republican Party.
Follow Ben Lorber: @BenLorber8
Read some of Ben’s writing at PRA: https://www.politicalresearch.org/bio/ben-lorber
Ben’s favorite things online right now: The “Blowback” podcast and @the.holistic.psychologist on Instagram
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Joining SH!TPOST is P.R. guy, writer, and Joker-meme enthusiast Ed Zitron, who wrote a fantastic essay this week that confronts the ways newsrooms have failed to respond to bad-faith internet harassment campaigns against their reporters made in service of right-wing political causes. Major outlets still have no real answer to the ongoing problem and have filled in the void with public statements that often accomplish less than nothing. Ed offers a few solutions of his own.
Follow Ed Zitron: @edzitron
Read Ed’s writing on Substack: ez.substack.com
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Over Memorial Day weekend and deep in the heart of Texas, powerful MAGA political figures and QAnon believers joined together for a wild-west themed conference inside an event venue made to look like a cowboy town. Joining SH!TPOST is Protean Mag publisher and independent journalist Steven Monacelli, who spent time at the conference incognito.
Correction note from Steven: “I mentioned a salute done by Brace Belden that I erroneously described as a "Daesh" salute. That salute has broader and more general use in the Islamic world. It was effectively hijacked by Daesh and I regret associating it with them as such.”
Follow Steven Monacelli: https://twitter.com/stevanzetti
Steven’s favorite thing online: Ken Klippenstein tricking prominent conservatives into wishing Lee Harvey Oswald a happy Memorial Day.
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The United States is considering ways to fight the kinds of extremist movements that enabled the attack on the U.S. Capitol and some have suggested creating new domestic terrorism laws that would offer federal agencies with more avenues to address that threat. Joining SH!TPOST to talk about flaws with this kind of counter-terrorism approach to fighting white supremacy is SPLC senior research Hannah Gais.
Follow Hannah Gais: https://twitter.com/hannahgais
Read “A New ‘War on Terrorism’ Is the Wrong Way to Fight Domestic Extremists”
Hannah’s favorite thing online right now:
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