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How Charlie Kirk achieved internet immortality

A year since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, social media users are marking what has controversially become known as the 'Kirkiversary'. Far from

Angel Vic and the truth about hustle culture

It's the latest example of an influencer's digital persona disintegrating before our eyes. For several years, Angel Victoria Murdock has been portraying a life of self-ma

Lindsay Clancy and the age of TikTok trials

A Massachusetts jury are deliberating in the shocking case of Lindsay Clancy, a mother who admits to killing her three young children amid suffering, her lawyers argue, e

Everybody wants to be Ellie Ellis

How did a 16-year-old girl with no prior online presence manage to gain more than 700k TikTok followers within a week of her first post? On this episode, we discuss the t

Exposed: the faceless accounts inflaming the Ceuta crisis

After roughly 78,000 migrants made the journey from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in a matter of hours at the end of July, reporters across the world were quick

A grievance syndicate is defrauding young men

The manosphere is just the tip of the iceberg - that's the premise of a new report, shared exclusively with Top Comment, about the so-called male grievance industry. Its

The vigilante streamers destroying reputations on Kick

From chasing pickpockets to unmasking predators, vigilantism has become one of the biggest trends on social media. On this episode Matt and Marianna discuss how the age o

Andrew Tate is blaming the Matrix again

Manosphere kingpin Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested in the US over the weekend after British authorities announced dozens of new charges against the pair

Erling Haaland, crypto billionaires, and the foxes incident

You may already think crypto is overexposed online, but is what we're experiencing just the tip of the iceberg? On this episode, Matt talks about his new BBC documentary

Solo-maxxing and the femosphere (live at Crossed Wires)

Marianna is joined by guest host Rachel Connolly to journey into the lives of femcels, tradwives, and so-called loneliness influencers. As the merits of social isolation

Gabriel Shemirani on medical misinfo and rejecting Conspiracyland

One year on from the BBC's investigation into the death of 23-year-old Paloma Shemirani - and two years since it happened - this episode of Top Comment explores what the

Restore Britain, Merlin the duck, and FIFA's content farm

After achieving 7% of the vote in last week's Makerfield by-election, the social-led strategy of emerging right-wing party Restore Britain has come under the spotlight. V

Agartha explained, and hot girls revolt on BookTok

The BookTok community has erupted after creator AllieRoseCo announced she had trademarked merchandise featuring the phrase 'Hot Girls Read'. User backlash was instantaneo

Belfast, Henry Nowak, and how Grok is supercharging misinfo

After a second night of rioting in Belfast, social media companies are being accused of playing a role in creating disorder. Technology secretary Liz Kendall has said an

Is Hasan Piker NSFW now? And Tung Tung's generational run

When Twitch streamer Hasan Piker was denied entry into the UK this week, it rekindled a conversation around the Home Office's approach to free speech. From Kanye West to

Sleuth wars, incels in STEM, and just want Harambe back

An inquest is set to open on Friday into the deaths of three sisters whose bodies were recovered from the sea off the coast of Brighton. The case has led to rampant specu

Why you're wrong about Palantir, and TL;DR Tolkien

The US tech giant Palantir holds contracts with some of the most influential entities in the world, from government departments and pharmaceutical companies to military c

BONUS: Taylor Lorenz says "don't blame social media"

On this bonus interview episode, Matt and Marianna are joined in the studio by leading social media journalist Taylor Lorenz. They discuss the evolution of meme culture,

Decline porn (part II), VPN patriotism, and Charli XCX's finsta drop

Foreign-based social media accounts are masquerading as patriotic Brits lamenting the UK's 'decline'. These profiles, which use AI to amplify anti-immigrant rhetoric, are

Dare Market, hantavirus, and wtf is going on at JPMorgan?

Launched last year, the website Dare Market describes itself as "the platform where you can dare anyone to do almost anything for real cash bounties". On this episode, Ma