dot com: The Hacking

Redditland | Ep 6 | The Glass Cliff

All roads lead to Rome. Or, in this case, San Francisco. Katie’s journey into the complex, fantastic and infuriating world of Reddit over the last five episodes has been shadowed by the murky office of the admin; so for the final episode of the season, Katie’s looking at the story of the people really pulling the strings. She’ll find a tale that involves shock appointments and rush dismissals, suicide, and a sinister emphasis on profit over people. And she’ll be looking to the future: in a world where the tensions between hate speech and censorship, accountability and anonymity are getting ever greater…can Reddit survive? You can get ad-free versions of this show by subscribing to the Crowd Stories channel on Apple Podcasts.
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Is the post-Cold War era over? In this brave new world, nothing is too small, or big, to be digitalised…including acts of war. Russian ransomware attacks almost doubled last year. At this very moment, cybercriminals are crippling schools, supermarkets, dentists, kindergartens, hospitals, oil pipelines - all in the name of money. Katie Puckrik wants to know who, and why. You can listen to the previous series of dot com on this same feed. Series 1 unveils the hidden army of volunteers behind the world's biggest encyclopaedia; and series 2 explores the heat behind the headlines of the US's 5th biggest social media website, Reddit. Dot com is presented by Katie Puckrik, written and produced by Anna Staufenberg, and edited by Crawford Blair.