The Internet, Reviewed.

Earlier this year, the Australian Financial Review reported on a $49,500 personal political donation from cryptocurrency exchange company Swyftx to Labor MP Andrew Charlton, made during last year's federal election campaign. Charlton's office "declined to comment" on the story, while the Swyftx CEO responded to it directly in a LinkedIn post, where he defended making the donation...

When YouTubers start claiming to have "exposed" something that the mainstream media has been exposing for years, ya gotta say something! YouTuber Pete Zogoulas and online political activist Drew Pavlou appeared on Karl Stefanovic's new podcast yesterday to discuss their Nick-Shirley-inspired video about fraud in the NDIS.I have a few thoughts on their video, and their conversation wi...

Welcome to "Backchat", where I respond to some of the feedback and comments on my videos. I have a couple of corrections/clarifications to make on my Megyn Kelly video from last week, in response to a few things pointed out in the comments section.(And yes - this segment is inspired by the ABC's "Backchat with Tim Bowden" from the 80s/90s.)

​Megyn Kelly has changed quite a lot in recent years. I think that much is undeniable - she herself acknowledges it. But what explains that change? In this video, I make the case that it is largely due to her falling victim to "audience capture" - an increasingly common trap for online, supposedly "independent" media personalities. The video also explores what she sees as the f...

Elena Bridgers is a science writer with an academic background in human biology, and "a special fascination in motherhood and evolutionary mismatch". She shares information about what motherhood was like (to the best of our knowledge) in hunter-gatherer societies - that is, for 95% of human history (and ongoing, for remaining hunter-gatherer societies today).The "evolutionary mismat...

Have you ever noticed how often it's reported that Vladimir Putin is about to die, and how rarely he actually does? Weird, isn't it. And it goes back more than two decades. Here's the 1940 film "Experiments in the Revival of Organisms", not for the weak-stomached:https://archive.org/details/Experime1940

We're getting back to core business today with a good old fashioned review... "Engineering with Rosie" on YouTube is, in my view, one of the best sources of information out there when it comes to the renewable energy transition. The channel is created and hosted by Rosemary Barnes - a renewable energy engineer with two decades of industry experience (and a PhD in wind turbine blade d...

[Please note: This video was published on my YouTube channel a few months ago.] I recently became obsessed with trying to work out whether China really does have coin-operated park benches that stab you in the butt when your sitting time is up. This 'fact' was all over the internet, and had made its way into the NY Times, The Guardian, NPR, an academic journal, and a professor's book....

We found him! This is an exclusive interview with "Teddy Reech", aka Scott Curtis - a UGC creator/actor who's done over a thousand ads for social media and online. He's got quite the story to tell about the job he did for the history app people, who it seems were engaged in an AI footage-farming operation. Enjoy his insights into this strange corner of the internet. Oh - and his...

I recently started receiving ads on social media for "educational" history apps. It soon became clear these were almost all just AI-generated junk apps, or outright scams to steal your money. This seems, to me, yet another symptom of the era of enshittification we're in, which is being turbocharged by AI.There seems to be a flood of these AI apps now, so I thought I should warn you a...

This episode unpacks the podcast that unpacks The Joe Rogan Experience... yes, it gets a bit meta! Hopefully, it'll leave you with some useful take-homes about how to critically assess the world's biggest podcast. Find more reviews at my YouTube channel: The Internet, Reviewed . Or email me with your own suggestions for who I should review next: theinternetreviewed@gmail.com