Best Rabble A.k.a. Evan Henshaw Plath Podcasts (2025)

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"Our Mission Is To Keep Flickr Pictures Visible for 100 Years" (with George Oates) 53:13

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Designer, community-builder, and Flickr co-creator George Oates is now the executive director of the Flickr Foundation, which is working to preserve the platform's 21 years of photos for the next 100 years. She helped create Flickr's community guidelines, designed its nested privacy controls, and launched the Flickr Commons program, which partners …

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Vine Revisited and The Fight Against AI Slop 20:33

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Rabble and Alice Chan, Revolution.Social’s host and executive producer, talk about the launch and overwhelming reception to diVine, a new social video app that resurrects the six-second looping format of Vine and features archived original Vine content. This time, however, the app is built on open protocols and a promise to focus on real content ma…

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Building Human Rights Into the Social Web (with Mallory Knodel) 50:37

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Mallory Knodel is the executive director of the Social Web Foundation and former CTO of the Center for Democracy & Technology. Her roots go back to the activists, anarchists, and dreamers who built the open web, and then lost control of it to big business.“Especially in the smaller circles of digital human rights organizations and so on, [they] rea…

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How to Overthrow Dictators Without Violence (with Srđa Popović) 1:23:30

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Political activist Srđa Popović led the movement that overthrew Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević in 2000. Since then, his organization, Canvas, has trained activists in over 50 countries how to build successful nonviolent movements—and he says most people misunderstand how change actually happens. “When we start working with them, they often say…

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Banning Kids From Social Media Isn’t the Answer (with Pamela Wisniewski) 55:18

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Pamela Wisniewski is one of the leading researchers on how social media affects teens, working at the UC Berkeley-affiliated International Computer Science Institute. In an era of moral panics around youth online safety, she believes the solution is to empower teens and teach them resilience, rather than restricting them. "We treat it as if our tee…

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Jeff Jarvis on the Death of Mass Media, Twitter vs. UberMedia, and Section 230’s Brilliance 1:07:13

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In books like The Web We Weave and podcasts such as Intelligent Machines, journalist and educator Jeff Jarvis — formerly the director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York — has traced the history of media from the Gutenberg press to AI. And he says that today’s attempts to clamp down on the inte…

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Harper Reed on Building for Obama, Social Media for Bots & Why Tech Isn't Always the Solution 1:12:48

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2389 Research CEO Harper Reed was previously the CTO of President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, where he helped redefine modern political technology. Before that, he was CTO of Threadless, the crowdsourced T-shirt company that accidentally invented crowdsourcing. Harper has spent his career building systems that bring people together onl…

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“Think Like a Commoner" Author David Bollier on the Commons & Why Open Platforms Aren't Enough 57:34

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When a community wants to organize itself, it might decide between private ownership and state control. David Bollier has spent decades arguing that that’s a false binary, and that there is a better way: The commons."The commons is as old as humanity," David says. "It's kind of the default setting for coordination and governance. It's just in the p…

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“The Etymology Nerd” Adam Aleksic on Algospeak, AI Slop, and the End of Writing 58:48

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Adam Aleksic, known to his social media followers as the “Etymology Nerd,” has built a massive audience by decoding the origins of words, accents, and memes. In his new book Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language, he talks about the ways our social media algorithms have accelerated the “context collapse” that changes the…

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Rudy Fraser on Blacksky, Mutual Aid & Reclaiming Social Media 1:04:56

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Rudy Fraser is the founder of Blacksky, a community-driven project building on top of the AT Protocol while remaining independent of Bluesky, where that protocol originated. At Blacksky, he and his team are applying the principles of mutual aid and community ownership to algorithms, moderation teams, and governance tools for the Black community, gi…

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Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on Growing Bluesky, Clueless Regulators & the Case for Optimism 1:14:48

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Techdirt founder & editor Mike Masnick has long argued that the internet’s power should lie with its users. In his landmark 2019 essay, Protocols, Not Platforms, he laid out a vision for how decentralized systems could preserve free speech while avoiding the pitfalls of centralized control. That vision has since helped inspire Bluesky, where Mike n…

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Bonus: Cory Doctorow on Sci-Fi Influences & the Social Media Bill of Rights 20:33

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We had more to talk about with Cory Doctorow than we could fit in this week’s episode. In this bonus ep, the science fiction author and internet rights activist talks to Rabble about being raised by science fiction in Toronto, and his one objection to the social media bill of rights: the right to “own” your connections to other people. “I think own…

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Cory Doctorow on Escaping Big Tech, Privacy Battles & “Enshittification” 1:08:42

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Sci-fi isn’t about hypothetical technologies, but rather about challenging the social impact of that tech, says author and activist Cory Doctorow. And in the real world, we must be just as conscious of the societal impact of the tech products we use. “Apologists for Big Tech would like you to think that all of the properties of their platforms are …

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Taylor Lorenz on Moral Panics, Tech Villains & Protecting Free Expression 1:04:58

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Journalist and Power User host Taylor Lorenz has reported on the fall of Vine, influencers who accept "dark money," and the proliferation of far-right content on Substack, just to name a few.Today on Revolution.Social, she joins Rabble to talk about why governments, including the U.S., are advancing laws to restrict free speech online; the misleadi…

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Chris Messina on Hashtags, Google+ & the Unintended Consequences of Building Social Media 1:05:39

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Chris Messina is best known for co-founding BarCamp and giving Web 2.0 the hashtag. Now on Revolution.Social, he joins Rabble to talk about the bigger picture of what has gone right, and wrong, with social media. In this episode, he and Rabble unpack why Google+ failed, the unintended consequences of hashtags, and how algorithms have reshaped our d…

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Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on AI Slop, Quality Content & Social Media Fragmentation 1:11:38

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After the introduction of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, the blogging platform Medium got ten times busier, says CEO Tony Stubblebine — and that was not a good thing. "Most of it was slop," he says. "Our job got a little bit harder on the filtering side. Actually, a lot harder on the filtering side." Luckily, Medium had already built human-ru…

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"Invisible Rulers" author Renee DiResta on Propaganda, Disinformation, & Online Abuse 1:17:17

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Renee DiResta has spent a decade tracking how small groups can hijack global conversations — and why the same tactics still work today. The author of "Invisible Rulers" and a leading academic researcher on online influence, she joins Rabble on Revolution.Social to unpack the hidden forces shaping what we see — and believe — on social media. Drawing…

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Substack CEO Chris Best on Democratizing Media, Content Moderation & Freedom of Speech 56:04

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"If you're a consistent advocate for freedom of the press, you will unfortunately have occasion to quarrel with every party and every side of the political spectrum," says Substack CEO Chris Best. As one of the most important platforms for independent writing online, and one of the only ones not reliant on advertising, Substack has sometimes attrac…

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Why We Need a New Social Media Bill of Rights 20:50

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Thanks for listening to Revolution.Social! in this bonus episode, recorded live at Web Summit Vancouver in May 2025, Rabble speaks with Penny Daflos, reporter for CTV News Vancouver. They discuss Rabble's work as part of the founding team at Twitter, why we need to reframe and create social media 'rights' for both developers and users, and how to c…

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Yoel Roth on Banning Trump, Battling Bots & the Difficult Job of Trust & Safety 56:48

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"Content moderation decisions are like assholes," says Yoel Roth, the former head of trust & safety for Twitter. "Everybody's got one." The underrated challenge of working in trust and safety is that every decision could affect millions of users, and the reasons for those decisions are often opaque. Today on Revolution.Social, Yoel and Rabble talk …

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Kara Swisher on Tech Founders' Flaws & Why Social Apps Are the New Cigarettes 49:21

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The founders of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter never cared about the lofty ideals they claimed, says longtime tech journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher. "I never thought they were idealistic. I thought they were there to make money," she says.Swisher, who co-hosts Pivot and also hosts On With Kara Swisher, likens tech giants to t…

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Jack Dorsey on Selling Twitter, Leaving Bluesky & What He's Building Next 50:04

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Twitter never should have been a traditional tech company, says Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey. Instead, it should have been designed as a protocol — like email, or podcasting.“That was the pure expression of it from day one,” Dorsey says. “And it was never really allowed to be that because it was on this fast track to becoming a pub…

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The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Like This 3:35

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Revolution.Social is a podcast about the future of social media and reclaiming our digital communities, hosted by technologist and community advocate Rabble, a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath — who was Twitter’s first employee. Guests will include Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey, journalist & podcaster Kara Swisher, science fiction author Cory Doctorow, a…

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"Our Mission Is To Keep Flickr Pictures Visible for 100 Years" (with George Oates) 53:13

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Vine Revisited and The Fight Against AI Slop 20:33

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Building Human Rights Into the Social Web (with Mallory Knodel) 50:37

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How to Overthrow Dictators Without Violence (with Srđa Popović) 1:23:30

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Banning Kids From Social Media Isn’t the Answer (with Pamela Wisniewski) 55:18

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Jeff Jarvis on the Death of Mass Media, Twitter vs. UberMedia, and Section 230’s Brilliance 1:07:13

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Harper Reed on Building for Obama, Social Media for Bots & Why Tech Isn't Always the Solution 1:12:48

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“Think Like a Commoner" Author David Bollier on the Commons & Why Open Platforms Aren't Enough 57:34

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“The Etymology Nerd” Adam Aleksic on Algospeak, AI Slop, and the End of Writing 58:48

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Rudy Fraser on Blacksky, Mutual Aid & Reclaiming Social Media 1:04:56

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Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on Growing Bluesky, Clueless Regulators & the Case for Optimism 1:14:48

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Bonus: Cory Doctorow on Sci-Fi Influences & the Social Media Bill of Rights 20:33

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Cory Doctorow on Escaping Big Tech, Privacy Battles & “Enshittification” 1:08:42

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Taylor Lorenz on Moral Panics, Tech Villains & Protecting Free Expression 1:04:58

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Chris Messina on Hashtags, Google+ & the Unintended Consequences of Building Social Media 1:05:39

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Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on AI Slop, Quality Content & Social Media Fragmentation 1:11:38

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"Invisible Rulers" author Renee DiResta on Propaganda, Disinformation, & Online Abuse 1:17:17

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Substack CEO Chris Best on Democratizing Media, Content Moderation & Freedom of Speech 56:04

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Why We Need a New Social Media Bill of Rights 20:50

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Yoel Roth on Banning Trump, Battling Bots & the Difficult Job of Trust & Safety 56:48

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Kara Swisher on Tech Founders' Flaws & Why Social Apps Are the New Cigarettes 49:21

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Jack Dorsey on Selling Twitter, Leaving Bluesky & What He's Building Next 50:04

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The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Like This 3:35