30 Best Cory Doctorow Podcast Appearance and Guest Interviews

1. Cory Doctorow on The AmberMac Show

Play Feb 18, 2026 52:27
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Episode Title Guests Cory Doctorow, Ed Elson, & Brittlestar on the State of the Internet
About Episode In this 1-year anniversary special episode of The Amber Mac Show, author and activist Cory Doctorow shares more about the enshittification of our tech world. To build on the issue of online harms, Ed Elson, from the Prog G Markets Podcast with Scott Galloway, unpacks how social media is making kids lonely. Plus, to wrap up this week’s show, Canada’s favourite Internet dad Brittlestar explains more about lessons from cats surviving fascism (also the title of his book)...MORE Hosts Amber Mac, Jeff MacArthur
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2. Cory Doctorow on Podcast Notes Playlist: Latest Episodes

Play Feb 05, 2026
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Episode Title 1280: Cory Doctorow | Why Everything Got Worse and What to Do About It
About Episode Jordan Harbinger Show: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- Remember when Facebook was fun and Google actually worked? Cory Doctorow coined a term for what went wrong, and he's here to explain how we fight back. Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger...MORE Producer/Network Podcast Notes
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3. Cory Doctorow on Masters in Business

Play Jan 21, 2026 42:03
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Episode Title BONUS: How the Internet Got Worse with Cory Doctorow
About Episode On this special, bonus edition of Masters in Business, Barry speaks with Cory Doctorow, a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger. They discuss the power of large companies over the Internet, and Corey's advocacy for data privacy. Barry and Cory discuss platform decay on the Internet, and how companies keep operating profitably while the user experience decays.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. MORE Host Barry Ritholtz
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4. Cory Doctorow on The Joe Reis Show

Play Jan 21, 2026 51:36
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Episode Title Cory Doctorow on Enshitification, The AI Bubble, Reverse Centaurs, and The..
About Episode In this episode, I sit down with science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow to unpack his viral concept of Enshitification, the three-act tragedy of platform decay: 1. be good to users 2. lock them in 3. extract value from users to feed advertisers and shareholders We also dive into: - The AI bubble: Cory’s case that parts of the sector are propped up by aggressive accounting and incentives, not durable value...MORE Host Joe Reis
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5. Cory Doctorow on Offline with Jon Favreau

Play Jan 17, 2026 1:05:48
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Episode Title 218: The Enshittification of the Internet (with Cory Doctorow)
About Episode Journalist, blogger, and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow stops by the studio to talk to Jon about “enshittification,” his theory that explains how, sometime over the last decade, everything online became substantially worse. The two discuss how tech companies lure in, trap, and then extract as much capital as possible from users; how that process played out at Facebook and Amazon; and what it would take — from a Democratic-led FTC and Congress — to reverse the trend before it’s supercharg..MORE Host Jon Favreau
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6. Cory Doctorow on Lock and Code

Play Jan 11, 2026 53:12
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Episode Title Enshittification is ruining everything online (feat. Cory Doctorow)
About Episode There’s a bizarre thing happening online right now where everything is getting worse. Your Google results have become so bad that you’ve likely typed what you’re looking for, plus the word “Reddit,” so you can find discussion from actual humans. If you didn’t take this route, you might get served AI results from Google Gemini, which once recommended that every person should eat “at least one small rock per day...MORE Host David Ruiz
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7. Cory Doctorow on Computer Says Maybe

Play Jan 05, 2026 56:30
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Episode Title Gotcha! Enshittification w/ Cory Doctorow (replay)
About Episode Welcome to the final boss of scams in the age of technology: Enshittification More like this: Nodestar: The Eternal September w/ Mike Masnick We’re replaying five deep conversations over the Christmas period for you to listen to on your travels and downtime — please enjoy! Is platformisation essentially just an industrial level scam? We will deep-dive the enshittification playbook to understand how companies lock users into decaying platforms, and get away with it...MORE Producer/Network Alix Dunn
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8. Cory Doctorow on Plutopia News Network

Play Dec 29, 2025 1:05:57
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Episode Title Cory Doctorow: Enshittification
About Episode In this excerpt from the Plutopia News Network, Cory Doctorow discusses his book Enshittification and the broader forces behind why digital platforms (and other industries) have “suddenly gotten worse.” He… The post Cory Doctorow: Enshittification first appeared on Plutopia News Network. MORE Producer/Network Plutopia News Network
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9. Cory Doctorow on Organized Money

Play Dec 23, 2025 1:01:32
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Episode Title The Enshitification Life Cycle With Cory Doctorow
About Episode As a holiday treat, we bring you a new conversation with author and Organized Money alum Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. Recorded earlier this year at a live book event, David asks Cory to expand on the thesis of the book: that digital platforms are now locked in a cycle of decay, seeing our technology become less intuitive, less useful, and less private...MORE Producer/Network Rock Creek Sound
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10. Cory Doctorow on The Prospect Podcast

Play Dec 16, 2025 42:15
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Episode Title ‘Despair is a luxury’: A year of hope with Zizek, Mehdi Hasan, Robert..
About Episode In the final podcast of the year, Ellen and Alona look back at their favourite episodes from 2025. During a dark year, Prospect has been collecting glimmers of hope. They asked some of the most interesting thinkers today—from politics, to environment to tech—for their perspectives on hope and optimism. What keeps them fighting for a more just world? Philosopher Slavoj Zizek and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan talk about the merits of pessimism...MORE Producer/Network Prospect Magazine
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11. Cory Doctorow on The Prospect Podcast

Play Dec 16, 2025 42:15
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Episode Title ‘Despair is a luxury’: A year of hope with Zizek, Mehdi Hasan, Robert..
About Episode In the final podcast of the year, Ellen and Alona look back at their favourite episodes from 2025. During a dark year, Prospect has been collecting glimmers of hope. They asked some of the most interesting thinkers today—from politics, to environment to tech—for their perspectives on hope and optimism. What keeps them fighting for a more just world? Philosopher Slavoj Zizek and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan talk about the merits of pessimism...MORE Host Chris Tilbury
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12. Cory Doctorow on Capitalisn't

Play Dec 11, 2025 56:10
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Episode Title How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet - ft. Cory..
About Episode There’s a word that’s gained a lot of popularity in the last year: “ensh*ttification”. It refers to a trajectory many see with digital platforms: they initially offer immense value to users, only to systematically degrade that quality over time in order to extract maximum surplus for shareholders.  We invited the coiner of this term, science fiction author and activist Cory Doctorow, on the podcast to discuss whether he thinks this decline is an inevitable feature of digital markets or a ..MORE Hosts Bethany Lee McLean, Luigi Zingales
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13. Cory Doctorow on The 1600

Play Dec 10, 2025 45:08
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Episode Title Why is Everything You Love Getting Worse? Ft. Cory Doctorow
About Episode It's not just you. It seems like every product in the digital age is getting worse. "Enshittification" author Cory Doctorow joins Carlo Versano on "The 1600" to break down the decay. To watch this episode, visit: https://youtu.be/U3UPCj030NY Learn more about the Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/ Subscribe to "The 1600" newsletter: https://link.newsweek.com/join/79a/the-1600 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19...MORE Apple Rating 5.0/5 Avg Length 39 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. Cory Doctorow on Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Play Dec 05, 2025 41:12
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Episode Title 'Enshitification' and how big tech is making the internet worse for everyone -..
About Episode Cory Doctorow has spent decades helping to shape the way we think about the modern internet. He is a campaigner against monopolies, surveillance and digital rights. His new book Enshitification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It analyses how the internet giants have captured us and become not quite as good as we had thought they were...MORE Producer/Network Channel 4 News
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15. Cory Doctorow on Future Knowledge

Play Dec 03, 2025 34:53
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Episode Title Enshittification
About Episode The internet wasn’t ruined by accident—it was ruined on purpose. In this episode, Cory Doctorow joins us to break down enshittification, his term for the slow, deliberate process that transformed an open, vibrant web into something extractive, frustrating, and increasingly hostile to users. Doctorow explains how platform lock-in, predatory business models, and concentrated corporate power hollowed out the digital spaces we rely on—and, more importantly, how we can build an internet that serves..MORE Apple Rating 4.1/5 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

16. Cory Doctorow on Escape Forward: Connecting dots beyond the antitrust island

Play Nov 27, 2025 1:02:18
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Episode Title Enshittification of our digital experience: the pathology is clear, but is..
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17. Cory Doctorow on Revolution.Social

Play Nov 26, 2025 21:46
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Episode Title Enshittification and “Breaking Kings” (with Cory Doctorow at Web Summit)
About Episode In this live interview recorded in November at Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon, Cory Doctorow returns to Revolution.Social to talk about building alternatives to “enshittified” digital platforms.  "Apps are websites that are illegal to protect your privacy while you use them," Cory explains. "The reason companies are so horny to get you to use their apps is because they can't be modified in that way. No one's ever installed an ad blocker for an app...MORE Apple Rating 4.8/5 Avg Length 54 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

18. Cory Doctorow on The Monopoly Report

Play Nov 05, 2025 1:06:09
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Episode Title Episode 54: The Enshittification of Everything (including digital media)
About Episode Cory Doctorow is a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His latest book is Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Went Wrong and What To Do About It. Cory and host Alan Chapell discuss the three stages of enshittification, its root causes, and the underlying social movement that is critical to addressing (and perhaps even reversing) its impact...MORE Producer/Network Ari Paparo
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19. Cory Doctorow on Utopias with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan

Play Aug 11, 2025 1:29:38
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Episode Title 22. Cory Doctorow
About Episode Cory Doctorow is an activist, journalist, and bestselling science fiction author. His books include The Lost Cause, Red Team Blues, The Internet Con, and Picks and Shovels. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. This conversation occurred on May 8, 2025, as part of a live event sponsored by UCLA DataX, an initiative focused on strengthening research and education in data science and critical data studies...MORE Producer/Network Ramesh Srinivasan
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20. Cory Doctorow on Revolution.Social

Play Jul 11, 2025 3:35
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Episode Title The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Like This
About Episode Revolution.Social is a podcast about the future of social media and reclaiming our digital communities, hosted by technologist and community advocate Rabble, a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath — who was Twitter’s first employee. Guests will include Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey, journalist & podcaster Kara Swisher, science fiction author Cory Doctorow, and many more.MORE Apple Rating 4.8/5 Avg Length 54 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

21. Cory Doctorow on Future Knowledge

Play Jul 02, 2025 33:44
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Episode Title The Internet Con
About Episode Author and activist Cory Doctorow joins us to discuss The Internet Con, his call to reclaim internet control from Big Tech. From locked-down platforms to the illusion of choice online, Cory lays out how interoperability can break corporate monopolies—and why reshaping the digital landscape starts with empowering users to leave, remix, and reimagine the internet on their own terms. Grab your copy of The Internet Con: https://www.versobooks...MORE Apple Rating 4.1/5 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

22. Cory Doctorow on The State of Kentucky

Play Jun 23, 2025 37:45
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Episode Title A talk with the author of “Enshittification”
About Episode We talk with Cory Doctorow, who came up with the term “enshittification” to describe what happens when power is consolidated into unaccountable corporate hands. We go from social media, to climate change, to captured regulators, to anti-trust laws and the lack of enforcement of them. An insightful and thought-provoking interview. ================================================== Website: https://pluralistic.net Latest book: “Picks and Shovels” Newsletter: https://mail.flarn...MORE Host Bruce Maples
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23. Cory Doctorow on Dot Social

Play Apr 24, 2025 1:01:52
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Episode Title Move Fast and Break Kings, with Cory Doctorow
About Episode Blogger, journalist, author and activist Cory Doctorow can embark on a 10-minute monologue about what’s wrong with tech and still leave you hungering for more of his rapid-fire analysis and biting humor. It’s stunning to be presented with the big picture of the mess we’re in — and how to potentially get out of it. In this episode of Dot Social, recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025, Doctorow unpacks the concept of “enshittification...MORE Producer/Network Mike McCue
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24. Cory Doctorow on News Over Noise

Play Apr 23, 2025 49:33
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Episode Title Episode 306: The Internet Got Ensh**ified: Monopoly Power and the Fight for..
About Episode A special thanks to our guest: Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently “Picks and Shovels” and “The Lost Cause,” a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction books include “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation,” a Big Tech disassembly manual, and “Chokepoint Capitalism,” about monopoly platforms and creative labor markets...MORE Producer/Network Penn State News Literacy Initiative, Matt Jordan, Leah Dajches
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25. Cory Doctorow on The Deep Dive

Play Apr 11, 2024 1:20:40
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Episode Title Episode 186: When the World Is A Bezzle w/ Cory Doctorow
About Episode Philip welcomes prolific writer and thinker Cory Doctrow to the show where they discuss two of Cory’s latest books, The Bezzle and The InternetCon as well as the general “enshittification” of our institutions. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings. Philip’s Drop: The Reluctant Traveler (AppleTV +) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15822846/) Cory’s Drop: Steven Brust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust)MORE Host Philip McKenzie
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26. Cory Doctorow on Copyright Waffle

Play Nov 09, 2022 1:17:36
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Episode Title Copyright Waffle Episode 21 Cory Doctorow
About Episode Jane and Chris (copyrightliteracy.org) speak to science fiction author, journalist, digital rights activist and copyright legend Cory Doctorow. We hear about his introduction to the copyright debates, his conversion to openness, the problems with the modern copyright regime and his latest book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' written with Rebecca Giblin. We also get his response to a song commemorating our conversation which appears to be by Kraftwerk...MORE Hosts Chris Morrison, Dr. Jane Secker
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