Jon Ronson meets with Frances Kelly, the founder of 'Carer watch', a forum for people who stay at home to look after relatives with disabilities. It got taken down indirectly by a company called Atos, employed by the UK government to monitor pe

Jon Vs Jon Part 2

Mar 21st, 2012 12m 25s

Jon Ronson arranges a meeting with the creators of the twitter spambot 'Jon_Ronson'. After some heated discussion and confusion in this interview, he discovers the academics' true agenda.

Patrice Wilson Follow-up

Mar 9th, 2012 2m 52s

Jon Ronson is contacted again by Patrice Wilson who was responsible for the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. Jon Ronson is treated to a second track made by Patrice Wilson just for him. This time Jon Ronson decides to go ahead and s

Jon Vs Jon

Feb 23rd, 2012 4m 5s

Jon Ronson discovers a spambot on twitter with the username 'Jon_Ronson', created by academics from Warwick University. He discusses his frustration with the fact many of the tweets seem plausible, even though they are about things he would nev

Twitter Bots

Dec 14th, 2011 5m 24s

Jon Ronson visits web analyst Tim Hwang (Web Ecology Project), who with colleagues developed bots for the social media website twitter. The bots generated random tweets in an experiment to see if they could steer the conversation amongst real h

Friday

Nov 3rd, 2011 6m 15s

Jon Ronson visits a man named Patrice Wilson who was responsible for the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. The video achieved over 200m views, and he believes he can do it again. Jon Ronson is treated to a track made by Patrice Wilso

Egypt's Arab Spring

Oct 20th, 2011 11m 16s

Jon Ronson looks into the recent Arab Spring revolution that took place in Egypt. Talking to the telecommunications company Vodafone, it appears that during the Arab Spring uprising, the government requested for the internet to be shut down.

The Search Continues

Oct 5th, 2011 9m 37s

on Ronson continues the search for Omar Gershon. Exploring Tel Aviv, Jon Ronson speaks with members of Latma Studios, the Jerusalem Post and the Israeli government, but it seems Omar Gershon's whereabouts is unknown by these people.

Astroturfing

Sep 21st, 2011 13m 3s

Jon Ronson continues the 'Escape and Control' series with a story about Wendell Potter - former Vice President of corporate communications for CIGNA, one of the world's biggest health insurance companies. He spoke of patient Nataline Sarkisyan,

The Hunt for Omar Gershon

Sep 7th, 2011 8m 55s

Jon Ronson begins the ‘Escape and Control’ series by looking into a man named Marc Pax, who posted a video on YouTube about experiencing homophobia when advocating gay rights.

Trailer

Aug 25th, 2011 1m 56s

In this upcoming documentary series, internationally acclaimed journalist and filmmaker Jon Ronson (Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare At Goats and New York Times Bestseller The Psychopath Test) turns his attentions to the Internet.