Legally, approximately 60% of all podcasts must be in some way about how the internet has impacted society (of the rest, most are true crime podcasts, and the others about how the internet has impacted true crime). So it is of Rabbit Hole, a New York Times podcast that starts off with great promise and, whilst it doesn’t necessarily become less interesting, does seem to squander it as it goes on, becoming increasingly generic. The basic premise is in how the changes in the YouTube recommendations algorithm have had a knock on effect in the way far right propaganda has spread. And for the first few episodes, Rabbit Hole alights on the genuinely interesting execution of finding someone who fell down that hole and explicitly tracing their descent through their YouTube viewing history. Inevitably, though, the podcast loses focus as it reaches an interview with Pewdiepie and begins looking at QAnon in general, rather than through the lens it establishes for itself. It’s interesting if overworked territory, and the hosts are amiable enough, but it does leave you wanting for more. It benefits from having been made between February and June 2020, in the midst of lockdown 1. A shame they didn’t make more of that, but how were they to know.