Online radicalization
Subject in Technology
Online radicalization has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Mayim BialikActress, neuroscientist and host of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
Bialik remarks that social media seems almost designed to propagate cults.
“It almost seems like social media was designed to propagate cults”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 9:50
Rick Alan RossAmerican cult intervention specialist, founder of the Cult Education Institute and author of Cults Inside Out
Ross says that despite abundant information, people become cocooned online among like-minded people, which group leaders manipulate.
“Even though information is so accessible, they become cocooned online in a world of like-minded people”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 7:51
Podcasts
- Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · 1 episode
Episodes
Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan RossMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 22, 2026 · 51 min
Mayim Bialik talks with cult expert Rick Alan Ross about how cults recruit and break people down, deprogramming, Scientology, AA, religion and Lev Tahor.