Podcast episodes
Season 2
S02 E08 - Elizabeth Williamson – “The results of this mass delusion”
In this episode of extremely, Oren Segal speaks with Elizabeth Williamson, feature writer for The New York Times and author of “Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.”Elizabeth and Oren discuss how disinformatio...
S02 E07 - Sam Jackson - "Motivated by a desire to understand people who I think are bad for the world"
S02 E07 - Sam Jackson - "Motivated by a desire to understand people who I think are bad for the world"
In this episode of extremely, Oren Segal speaks with Sam Jackson, assistant professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the State University of New York at Albany, and author of, “Oat...
S02 E06 - David Neiwert - "They are against something, and that something is democracy"
In this episode of extremely, Oren Segal speaks with David Neiwert, investigative journalist, and author of, “Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump.” David, who has been reporting on extremism for decades,...
S02 E05 - Lisa Kaplan - “Democracies have generally faced worse, and we can get around this one too”
S02 E05 - Lisa Kaplan - “Democracies have generally faced worse, and we can get around this one too”
In this episode of extremely, Oren Segal speaks with Lisa Kaplan, founder of the Alethea Group, which detects and mitigates disinformation and social media manipulation. Lisa explains the difference between disinformation and misi...
S02 E04 - Amy Cooter – “This is not exactly what you think it is”
In this episode of extremely, Oren Segal speaks with Amy Cooter, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Vanderbilt University, about her ethnographic research on the militia movement in the U.S.Amy, who has interviewed militia members di...