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The Digital Human - A podcast by BBC Radio 4

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Aleks Krotoski explores what it's like to be 'villain of the day' on social media.It seems every day an individual rightly or wrongly becomes the object of the online world's condemnation. What's that like and what motivates people to pile on? Are the criticisms always made in good faith or is there something more complex going on with what the critics are trying to signal.Producer: Peter McManus