Long Shadow

<p>Reacting in the middle of one nightmare, the U.S. government created another — an apparatus that in the wrong hands has become one of the most terrifying tools in the history of the country.</p>

<p>Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the worst terror attacks on U.S. soil, 'Long Shadow: 9/11's Lingering Questions' returns with this special episode hosted by bestselling author and journalist Garrett Graff. Listen to the Signal Award-winning first season of 'Long Shadow' now, and download the full episode on September 1, 2026, from Long Lead and PRX, wherever you get your podcasts.</p>

<p><em>Long Shadow</em> listeners: Today we’re sharing a great episode of the <em>Question Everything</em> podcast in our feed because it's the perfect crossover between "In Guns We Trust" and "Breaking the Internet."</p><p><br></p><p>Propagandist? Truth teller? Influencer? <em>Question Everything</em> unravels the contested work of journalists and the moral complexities surrounding the stories that impact us all.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Episode description:</strong>  <br>Kate grew up believing

<p><em>Long Shadow</em> listeners: Today we’re sharing a great episode of the <em>Panic World</em> podcast in our feed because we think you’ll like it.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Panic World</em> is a weekly chat show that explores how the internet warps our minds, our culture, and eventually reality — which is pretty much the story of <em>Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet</em>, only we do it in a longform narrative format. </p><p><br></p><p>The show's host, Ryan Broderick, knows a lot about the web,

<p>A toxic army of trolls goes after women in the gaming industry, giving birth to an online movement of disaffected men. This "manosphere" contributes to the resurgence of Donald Trump and a constitutional crisis that holds American democracy in the balance.</p>

<p>After the twin disasters of the massacre in Myanmar and the 2016 election, social media undergoes a reckoning in the halls of Congress… until a novel virus uncorks a global pandemic and a contagion of hoaxes, conspiracies, and lies online.</p>

<p>North Korea hacks a movie studio over a screwball comedy, inspiring America’s enemies to launch cyberattacks against the U.S. To roil an election, one even unleashes a network of trolls pitting ordinary Americans against each other, online and in the streets.</p>

<p>With the dawn of the newsfeed, Facebook begins a mass experiment on the human psyche — what we like and hate, what makes us happy and angry. Over the course of a decade, its algorithm drives the world to like, comment, and eventually, kill.</p>