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Taylor Lorenz’s Power User — 183 episodes

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Elon Musk’s Final Plan: A Dangerous Blueprint For World Domination

2

The AI Job Apocalypse: Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass w/ Jasmine Sun

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Silicon Valley Is Losing Control w/ Brian Merchant

4

Ben Shapiro’s Empire Is Crumbling w/ Will Sommer

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Stop Feeling Helpless About AI: The Violent History of Resisting Technology

6

The Most Dangerous Lie on the Internet: The 62 Million Men Hoax Explained

7

The Dark Side Of AI Safety Laws

8

The New Digital Class War: Rich People Use The Internet Differently w/ Adam Aleksic

9

[PATREON PREVIEW] Record Labels Are Buying Meme Pages for Millions

10

Inside A Billionaire's AI Spy Network: The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

11

The Girlboss-ification of AI: How Big Tech Is Gaslighting Women Into AI w/ Kat Tenbarge

12

Silicon Valley is Breaking Everything

13

Inside Iran's Gen Z Meme Army: How LEGO Became War Propaganda

14

The Woman Taking On Big Tech: She Fought the Government and Won

15

The Downfall of Skibidi Toilet: How Hollywood Fumbled A Powerful Fandom

16

They're Putting AI Cameras In School Busses

17

Why AI Fruit Slop Is Taking Over Our Feeds w/ Kyle Chayka

18

Chappell Roan Did Nothing Wrong: The TikTok Smear Campaign Explained w/ Caroline Kwan

19

The Media Is Lying About the Social Media Addiction Trial: The Verdict Everyone Got Wrong

20

How Heated Rivalry Broke the Internet: Inside the Internet’s Biggest Breakout Fandom

21

This Is How The Internet Dies: Governments are Scrubbing the Web

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The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies w/ Will Sommer

23

How Section 230 Became Political : The Secret Campaign To Seize Power Over the Internet

24

ICE Wants to Shut Down His Clothing Brand: What Happens When the Govt Hates Your Merch

25

How Bots Boosted Nicki Minaj's MAGA Pivot

26

Everything You Know About Algorithms Is A Lie: Section 230 Algorithm Problem Explained

27

Inside The AI Scandal Rocking Silicon Valley: How The Govt Wants AI To Kill Without Humans

28

How Epstein Shaped The Internet w/ Ryan Broderick

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They Want to Ban Abortion Info Online

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How The Govt Uses Big Tech to Silence Critics

31

Kids Are Being Taught By ChatGPT: Inside A $65K AI School

32

Why The Internet Is Broken

33

The Body Camera Propaganda Playbook

34

Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds: The Logging Off Industrial Complex

35

The Man Who Created the Internet's Most Important Law: Sen. Wyden Reveals What Big Tech Won't Tell You

36

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Internet Censorship Crusade

37

White Women Are MAGA Internet's Newest Enemy

38

They Are Trying To Kill The Internet As We Know It

39

The UK Is A Dystopia, And We're Next

40

Content Creation Has Become a Pyramid Scheme

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[PATREON PREVIEW] The Powerful Subreddit Upending Twitch: The Rise and Fall of Livestream Fail

42

Can You Sue For Social Media Addiction?

43

Why Everyone Is Becoming Chinese Online w/ Caroline Kwan

44

Why Conservatives Hate Brooklyn Beckham [PATREON PREVIEW]

45

How The Government Tracks Your Life

46

Why Everyone Is Suddenly Obsessed With 2016

47

Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead

48

ICE's New Surveillance System Can Follow You Everywhere

49

Ashley St Clair's Political Awakening: Trans Rights, AI, and Elon Musk

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Congress Is Pushing Another Internet Censorship Law: The SCREEN Act

51

ICE Is Treating Immigration Raids Like Content

52

4Chan's Battle to Stop the UK From Censoring the Global Internet

53

The Insane Overnight Rise of Clavicular: the black-pilled Gen Z looksmaxxer taking over the internet

54

[BONUS] Why Everything Feels Life or Death Now

55

Is This The End of The Open Web?

56

Elon Musk's God Complex

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Is There A Vibe Shift in Silicon Valley? [PATREON EXCLUSIVE]

58

Social Media Addiction Isn't Real— Here is What's Really Happening

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How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z w/ Ryan Broderick

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The Global Internet Is Dying: America Is Repeating China's Biggest Mistake

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Everyone Is Wrong About The Olivia Nuzzi RFK Scandal w/ Kat Tenbarge

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Congress Is About to Break the Internet

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The Radicalization Pipeline Nobody Sees Coming

64

None Of This is About Online Safety

65

The MAGA Twitter Apocalypse w/ Charlie Warzel

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[PATREON PREVIEW] How Zohran Won The Internet w/ the Creators 4 Zohran Founders

67

The Most Depraved Commentary I've Ever Heard

68

The Epstein Saga Is Sending the Internet Into Chaos w/ Brace Belden

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The Government Is Spying on College Football Games

70

How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War

71

He Was Tortured in an Israeli Prison for Speaking Out

72

Why Every Hit Pop Song Sounds the Same Now

73

The New Legal Fight to Destroy Super PACs Forever

74

Has Taylor Swift Finally Peaked? Why Billionaires Can't Make Good Art

75

A Woman Streamer Was Assaulted, Is Twitch To Blame?

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Can Twitch Survive? CEO Dan Clancy at Twitchcon

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Fighting For LGBTQ Rights is Terrorism Now: NSPM-7 Explained w/ Ken Klippenstein

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Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For

79

[PATREON PREVIEW] How Raunchy AI Country Songs Took Over The Internet

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You Are Probably Being Tracked By ICE Right Now

81

A Crypto Convict's Spectacular Comeback Tour: How Ross Ulbricht Became A Powerful MAGA Influencer

82

The Shocking Plan to Kill Online Privacy: A VPN Ban Will Break the Web

83

The AI Slop-pocalypse: How The Slop Economy Took Over

84

How To Become Invisible Online (Delete Your Digital Footprint and Protect Your Privacy Forever)

85

The Truth About Nepal’s Gen Z Uprising

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The Secret Role Of Influencers In Global Propaganda

87

Trump's Censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Is Just The Beginning

88

The Truth Behind The Rise of 'Robot Racism'

89

A New Kind of AI Deepfake is Taking Over TikTok [PATREON PREVIEW]

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We Need to Talk About 'Political Violence’

91

The Death of Casual Posting w/ Kyle Chayka

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ICE can now hack your phone without you knowing

93

The Shocking Truth About Dark Money and Influencers

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The Real Reason Your Insurance Just Went Up

95

The MrBeast of OnlyFans on Skibidi Toilet Porn and Elon Musk

96

Your Landlord Might Be Using Facial Recognition to Spy On You

97

The True Story Behind Four Loko

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YouTube's AI Age Verification is a Disaster

99

What killed The Song Of The Summer w/ Anthony Fantano

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Everyone’s Lying About Lil Tay OnlyFans w/ Kat Tenbarge

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Is ChatGPT Changing The Way We Talk? w/ Adam Aleksic

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The UK's Censorship Catastrophe is Just The Beginning

103

The Public Health Internet Is Crumbling

104

How Companies Learned Everything About Us

105

ICE Is Building a Nationwide Tracking System (and Your Data is In It)

106

Why we can’t stop doxxing people for fun

107

AI Deepfake Panic is Killing Free Speech

108

Diddy And The Death of #MeToo: How Diddy’s Trial Was Weaponized Online

109

Is a YouTuber Using Copyright Law to Silence Speech?

110

MAGA's Epstein Crashout And What's Next w/ Will Sommer

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Silicon Valley Wants Endless War

112

Are kindness influencers bad?

113

Deported Over a JD Vance Meme

114

Private Equity Is Destroying America

115

ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion: The Rise of People Worshiping A.I.

116

How The Government Tracks Your Life

117

The Death of Rainbow Capitalism w/ Matt Bernstein

118

The Truth About Burning Waymos

119

Elon vs Trump Explained w/ Brace Belden

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Is this the end of the open web?

121

Elon Musk's God complex

122

The Government Is Lying About Online Safety

123

The case against logging off

124

The Take It Down Act Is a Free Speech Killer

125

Why Students Can't Stop Using ChatGPT

126

They're trying to ban posting about abortion online

127

How the Media Tricks You Into Loving the Police

128

Undercover AI ‘College Protester’ Bots for Cops

129

Tween Podcasters Are Taking Over the Internet

130

Fake Newspapers Are Flooding America

131

The White House's social media is deranged

132

The Dark Truth Behind Ashton Hall’s Morning Routine w/ Matt Bernstein

133

Musk’s DOGE Antics Could Be the Downfall of Tesla

134

Trump Official Brendan Carr's War on Free Speech

135

The Right-Wing Plot to ‘Murder’ a Free Press

136

How Pop Culture News is Radicalizing You

137

How the 00s changed the tech world forever

138

Elon Musk and the Billionaire Baby Boom

139

How Spotify is Ruining Music: ‘It’s About How Power Works’

140

Meet the zoomers aiding Musk’s government takeover

141

Why a MAGA influencer turned on Trump

142

The Truth About Child Influencing

143

Doxxed, harassed and silenced: the fallout of Gamergate 2.0

144

Patreon’s CEO on the existential threat to creators no one is talking about

145

What defined the internet in 2024?

146

Is TikTok really dead?

147

The case against cell phone bans in school

148

Could the 4B movement ever happen in America?

149

Why Democrats won't create a left-wing Joe Rogan

150

AI’s destroying seasonal content

151

The mastermind behind the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest

152

Into the Costcoverse with AJ Befumo

153

Are Jubilee videos healing or polarizing?

154

Inside the strange world of corporate influencers

155

How nostalgia accounts are destroying pop culture history

156

Why online retailers all sell the same crappy products

157

The Problem with Age Verification Online

158

Why is Instagram Reels so unhinged?

159

Brazil's X ban upends stan accounts + political debates take over TikTok

160

The ultimate summer trend recap + a Chick-fil-A streaming service

161

Inside the DNC’s influencer extravaganza, from yacht partying to meme lounge

162

Can Elon and Twitter save Trump? + Kamala plays with fire online

163

Can MrBeast be canceled? + Tim Walz mania and minions on a cross

164

Is Skibidi Toilet the Next Hollywood Blockbuster?

165

Is Kamala Harris a political meme stock?

166

The rise of ‘BlueAnon' + Trump shooting merch + RNC influencers

167

Inside the most toxic live-streaming platform + NATO influencers

168

An influencer’s battle against her snark subreddit

169

Why do so many people think a top Stanford researcher is a CIA agent?

170

Do you speak Brain Rot? How the internet is changing language

171

Is it ever okay to film strangers in public? + Trump’s new TikTok + MrBeast hits #1

172

Is a Tech Utopia a Dystopia for Everyone Else?

173

'Zombie Facebook' takes over + ScarJo vs OpenAI

174

Is the celebrity 'blockout' working? + TikTok creators sue the U.S.

175

What's up with Fake Podcast Ads, AI Audiobooks and the Audio Creator Economy?

176

Are "Industry Plants" Real? + 'The Social Network' Sequel

177

Sell or Die. TikTok’s Sophie’s Choice + MKBHD on his viral ‘takedowns’

178

Drake & Kendrick's AI Rap Beef + TikTokkers Against Biden

179

Is Social Media Destroying Kids’ Lives? + Elon’s Secret X Account

180

The Real Estate Content Boom + The Worst Day on the Internet

181

Kindness Influencers and Poverty Porn + Is Huberman Cancelled?

182

Should we ban TikTok? + MrBeast’s Amazon deal, and what's up with Shrimp Jesus?

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Introducing Power User with Taylor Lorenz