Castuner

Top Comment

BBC

The story behind your social media feed, from BBC correspondent Marianna Spring and investigative journalist Matt Shea.

Top Comment investigates what's blowing up online. From global events that go viral across social media, to bizarre moments that spill into real life, Marianna and Matt unpack the trends, theories and digital chaos shaping our world.

You can also hear Marianna's previous series for the BBC in this feed, including Marianna in Conspiracyland, Why Do You Hate Me?, Disaster Trolls, Death by Conspiracy? and War on Truth.

Сайт подкаста

Слушайте в своём приложении

Эпизоды

105 эпизодов

  1. AO3 and fears of the internet apocalypse 34:15
  2. How porn sites soft-launched the attention economy 38:05
  3. Are platforms promoting death on demand? 35:05
  4. AI influencers are invading our feeds 35:04
  5. Frances Haugen: exposing Facebook five years on 43:35
  6. How the 'Cornell 7' rape case became a call to action 39:29
  7. Has Hunter Biden fumbled the bag? 34:11
  8. Why deepfake wizards went underground 31:23
  9. How Charlie Kirk achieved internet immortality 29:35
  10. Angel Vic and the truth about hustle culture 34:46
  11. Lindsay Clancy and the age of TikTok trials 38:28
  12. Everybody wants to be Ellie Ellis 38:53
  13. Exposed: the faceless accounts inflaming the Ceuta crisis 30:08
  14. A grievance syndicate is defrauding young men 33:32
  15. The vigilante streamers destroying reputations on Kick 35:38
  16. Andrew Tate is blaming the Matrix again 31:58
  17. Erling Haaland, crypto billionaires, and the foxes incident 39:25
  18. Solo-maxxing and the femosphere (live at Crossed Wires) 49:49
  19. Gabriel Shemirani on medical misinfo and rejecting Conspiracyland 31:47
  20. Restore Britain, Merlin the duck, and FIFA's content farm 34:55
  21. Agartha explained, and hot girls revolt on BookTok 30:49
  22. Belfast, Henry Nowak, and how Grok is supercharging misinfo 35:29
  23. Is Hasan Piker NSFW now? And Tung Tung's generational run 30:29
  24. Sleuth wars, incels in STEM, and just want Harambe back 25:30
  25. Why you're wrong about Palantir, and TL;DR Tolkien 27:21
  26. BONUS: Taylor Lorenz says "don't blame social media" 41:55
  27. Decline porn (part II), VPN patriotism, and Charli XCX's finsta drop 25:13
  28. Dare Market, hantavirus, and wtf is going on at JPMorgan? 33:13
  29. Shooting conspiracies, breakup texts, and Dana White's cortisol spike 26:01
  30. BONUS: Live at Maida Vale Studios 28:09
  31. Haley Beck explained, and the crypto operation hijacking the BBC 22:04
  32. Coachella, GRWM fakers, and Justin Bieber is chronically online 24:15
  33. Iran, slopaganda, and the lego-inspired creator behind it all 25:08
  34. Misogyny, boomers, and China just got Krissed 29:30
  35. Meta, YouTube, and a damning addiction verdict 29:25
  36. Whistleblowers, dolphin memes, and a million dollar toilet 30:55
  37. Nancy Guthrie, TikTok sleuths, and Starmer's cringeposting era 30:32
  38. School wars, Dubai's crisis PR, and is Fabrizio cancelled? 27:41
  39. Kalshi, Polymarket, and gamifying the future 34:40
  40. Decline porn explained, and why Clavicular is misunderstood 31:38
  41. Introducing... Top Comment 1:58
  42. Marianna in Conspiracyland 2: 6. The Inquest 29:37
  43. Marianna in Conspiracyland 2: 5. A collective immune system 24:09
  44. Marianna in Conspiracyland 2: 4. The Archaeologists 22:58
  45. Marianna in Conspiracyland 2: 3. Down the cancer conspiracy rabbit hole 30:42
  46. Marianna in Conspiracyland 2: 2. Conspiracyland at home 29:32
  47. Marianna in Conspiracyland 2: 1. The Dove and the Pigeon 32:45
  48. Why Do You Hate Me? USA: 5. Fandom Frenzies: Who’s afraid of little old us? 28:44
  49. Why Do You Hate Me? USA: 4. Doxxed and Blocked: ‘We’re distressed about war in the Middle East and now trolls are after us.' 28:44
  50. Why Do You Hate Me? USA: 3. The Fable of the Pikesville Clip: ‘I’ve been burnt by the fire once, so I’ll think twice before posting’ 28:28