On the streets of the lower bottoms.

Last season we got to know some local characters who made a smile, made us cry, and made us think.

Former FBI agent Buella Rhodes discovered her best friend was involved in the police shooting of her twin sister.

And who could forget Shantay?

We found herself ensnared in a most vicious scheme.

A little to Shantay know, Devon didn't die that night.

Shantay, you better watch your back, for you may be the next victim on the bottoms.

Listen to the lower bottoms, season one and two.

Right now on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

How did the online harassment of a Saturday Night Live comedian paved the way to a Trump White House?

Or how did people in Georgia use Facebook to run a black teacher out of town?

And what does any of this have to do with our democracy?

The answer is the internet.

There are all instances where women were targeted by an online hate mob.

And this kind of thing has been steadily creeping from our computer screen into our wider political landscape.

I'm Brigitte Todd and on my new podcast, Internet Hate Machine,

I'll be charting how the harassment and abuse of women and other traditionally marginalized people online

has led us to our current political hellscape.

And what we can do about it.

Listen to Internet Hate Machine on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

There is a long standing urban legend in Los Angeles County.

The Sheriff's Department is the biggest gang on the streets.

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