Captain, it's got the code. It's going to launch.

It's a unit system. I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

Eagle One. The package is being delivered.

Hello out there on the internet.

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

You've probably heard of it, but you may not be using it.

We've all heard about how Facebook is destroying democracy, how Twitter enables the loudest, dumbest voices to have the most influence, how Instagram has ruined an entire generation's self-esteem.

What if I told you there was a social media network even more important than those?

Every day, people are gathering online in this space to organize powerful political movements.

They're sharing details of what's going on locally, getting organized, and fighting each other in an online cage match of American politics. It's time to talk about next door.

Here with me to walk through the intricacies of the site is Motherboard Senior Writer, Aaron Gordon.

Aaron, thank you for coming on another

episode of Aaron and Matthew Do America. How are you doing? I'm good. Can I take 30 seconds to do

a quick aside that has absolutely nothing to do with anything? Yes, please. All right, so in our

intro, we always play the clip from Independence Day of the package being delivered.

For absolutely no reason recently, I was explaining to my wife who has never seen Independence Day, the plot of the movie.

Because we were talking about the definition of a summer blockbuster.

And for some reason, that was like the first movie that came to mind.

And like, did the, did the infosec person for the aliens ever get their

comeuppance for the poor, like, IT, for the poor architect security architecture of that

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