Internet instigators
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Internet instigators are organising protests and campaigns using social media and other internet tools and apps to promote their causes. Nina Robinson explores the methods used by activists to create online communities, spearheaded by their charismatic and authentic personalities and hard-hitting visual content.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you get doxed? |
| 0:05.6 | Did you get doxed? |
| 0:06.6 | Did you explain what doxing is? |
| 0:09.3 | Did you get doxed? |
| 0:10.9 | Putting out a document, that's where the word comes from, of people's personal information, |
| 0:15.6 | like, their, you know, government ID numbers and their birthday and phone numbers and that |
| 0:19.2 | kind of thing. |
| 0:20.2 | And that happened to you? |
| 0:22.2 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:23.2 | I mean, yeah, they, they, if you define it as putting my home address and stuff like |
| 0:29.0 | that out online, yeah, it, they, a lot of times we'll do that to try to intimidate, you |
| 0:36.5 | know, folks are kind of say, hey, we know you're where you live, that sort of thing. |
| 0:40.6 | It's, um, it's an intimidation tactic. |
| 0:46.5 | Megan Squire researches far right extremists online exposing their networks and finances |
| 0:53.4 | as gutter into these situations quite a few times. |
| 0:57.1 | But what she's unearthed has been important to understand how these messages are spreading |
| 1:02.2 | across the internet. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Nina Robinson and for this week's documentary on the BBC World Service, we're looking at |
| 1:11.4 | the work and tactics of people who are using the internet to create change. |
| 1:16.6 | They're building communities to drive online movements. |
| 1:20.2 | In the process, they're changing minds, attitudes, how we think and feel. |
| 1:25.6 | We're the instigators. |
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