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Jan 2019
31m 26s

The League of Extraordinary Trolls

Wnyc Studios
About this episode

An elite unit of trolls is engaged in an existential battle against hate speech on the internet. This is their story.

This episode originally aired on Endless Thread, a co-production of WBUR and Reddit. It's a show about Reddit (also known as the front page of the internet), hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson, produced by Josh Swartz, and mixed by Paul Vaitkus.

Nancy theme by Alexander Overington.

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