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When was the last time you felt good about the internet? Today’s online landscape is a harrowing one. People screaming at each other on social media. Violent videos going viral. Cyberbullying, racism, misogyny. Back in the day, the web gave power to the people, and going online could actually be fun.

LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET retraces 30 years of web history — a tangle of GIFs, blogs, apps, and hashtags — to answer the bewildering question many ask when they go online today: “How did we get here?”

It’s the story of mankind’s greatest invention, a tool that gave everyone access to all the world’s information and unlocked democracy across the globe. But LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET is also about the biggest crisis facing society today: how the web's unlimited feed of data morphed into a firehose of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and lies that divided Americans over things we once agreed on, like science, diversity, and even democracy itself.

Chronicling innovations, revolutions, cyber attacks, and meltdowns across seven episodes, this limited series podcast untangles the web in a way you’ve never considered before. Featuring memes and moments you know — like when the world became transfixed by the color of a dress — and others you don’t, but should — like how people sent death threats to the woman who posted that meme online — LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET both scales the heights of internet virality and plumbs the depths of social media's depravity.

Hosted by Pulitzer-finalist historian, author, and journalist Garrett Graff, the Peabody Award-nominated LONG SHADOW podcast makes sense of the most pivotal moments in U.S. history, including Waco, Y2K, 9/11, Columbine, January 6, and beyond. Within weeks of the launch of its first season, 9/11’s LINGERING QUESTIONS in 2021, LONG SHADOW became a No. 1 history show on Apple Podcasts. Its second season, RISE OF THE AMERICAN FAR RIGHT, was named Best Podcast at the 2024 Edward R. Murrow Awards. IN GUNS WE TRUST, the show’s third season produced in collaboration with The Trace, was awarded the RFK Human Rights Journalism Award for its coverage of America’s gun violence epidemic. The podcast has also been nominated for an IDA Award and won three Signal Awards, among other honors.

LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET premieres June 24, with new episodes available for download the following six Tuesdays, wherever you get your podcasts.

LONG SHADOW is produced by the award-winning journalism studio Long Lead and distributed by PRX. For more visit www.longlead.com and www.longshadowpodcast.com.

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  • Trailer: Long Shadow: 9/11's Lingering Questions

    Trailer: Long Shadow: 9/11's Lingering Questions
    Jul 21 2021

    Many of us watched the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 unfold right before our eyes. In the years since, law enforcement, congressional inquiries and the press have successfully uncovered more about what happened that day. But now on the 20th Anniversary of the attacks, many mysteries remain. Hosted by bestselling author and reporter Garrett Graff, Long Shadow answers those lingering questions and explores other enduring mysteries that still surround 9/11, the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Premiering this August, produced by Long Lead and Goat Rodeo.
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    2 m
  • Why weren’t more people rescued from the Twin Towers?

    Why weren’t more people rescued from the Twin Towers?
    Aug 18 2021

    After both towers of the World Trade Center were hit on September 11, 2001, first responders coordinated the largest emergency response in New York City’s history. But their heroism at Ground Zero was hampered by institutional bureaucracy and ultimately undone by decisions made decades earlier, when the Twin Towers were built.


    So why did these iconic structures and architectural marvels fall so fast? Could more people have been rescued from the towers? And could some of those deaths have been avoided?



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    46 m
  • What was the target of United Airlines Flight 93?

    What was the target of United Airlines Flight 93?
    Aug 20 2021

    Every defense mechanism the U.S. government had on 9/11 failed except for one: the passengers and crew aboard United Airlines Flight 93. They were on the final plane to be hijacked that day and heard reports of the attacks from loved ones on the ground. Then they rallied to stop the terrorist plot.


    But where was the plane headed before it crashed? What was the intended target of the Flight 93 hijackers?
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    28 m
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This podcast is a must if you want to understand recent history leading to today's right wing. The narrating was great.

Helped me understand the extreme right wing

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this narrator is great and his story's are even better give it 5 stars please ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

best podcast ever

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I appreciate the attention to detail, and the research done for each episode. I started with the 9/11 series and am now working my way through the second series about the rise of rightwing extremism in America. The only critique is that while there is an excellent balance of narration, sound bite, and interview clip, some added sound effects are unnecessary and distract.

Well researched, comprehensive

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