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Investigative Journalist
Host, @questioneverything.podcast
Past @stownpodcast, @serial, @thisamerlife
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RESONATE 2026: “Caught Between Strange Dream and a Profound Feeling”

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Oh yeah Gemini?? Millions of downloads and gazillions of column inches and you can’t get John B. McLemore right?
FYI @brihreed

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This is Republican Lieutenant Governor of Utah, Diedre Henderson. Right now, she’s being sued by the Department of Justice for refusing to give the Trump administration information about voters in her state which include details like a full birth date, a driver’s license number and the last four digits of a Social Security Number (SSN). This comes after President Donald Trump said in February that he wanted the federal government to take over elections.

While some Republican state officials happily passed over their voter data, Henderson isn’t budging. “They don’t legally have a basis for it,” Henderson told Question Everything producer Zach St. Louis. She added that she’s doing this to protect the “fundamental right of voting” for citizens in her state.

Hit the link in our bio to listen to our full interview in the latest episode of Question Everything and follow us for more.

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Our team at Question Everything is honored to take home SIX Gold Awards and TWO Listener’s Choice Awards in the categories of Best Writing and Best Host for the @SignalAwards. If you’re new to our podcast, Question Everything is a weekly investigation into how truth gets buried, distorted and denied—and how people are fighting to make it matter again. From an interview with a 20-year-old who is suing Instagram for purposely addicting them as a child and driving them to years of mental health struggles to an editor’s quest to uncover the truth about a freelance writer, you can hit the link in our bio to find all the episodes mentioned in our post here. New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow us for more.

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In our interview from earlier this year, Ashley St. Clair talks to @brihreed about her landmark lawsuit against xAI, the artificial intelligence company behind Grok, which generated millions of sexually explicit deep fake images of her and other women. xAI is owned by St. Clair’s ex, Elon Musk, and Brian asks her to share stories and insights from her relationship with Musk to help people understand his erratic and offensive behavior. Brian also asks St. Clair about her years as a major figure inside the right-wing propaganda machine. It’s those questions that seemed to bother her most. Hit the link in our bio to listen to the full interview now.

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Just a few more hours to vote for your favorite 2026 @signalawards finalists for the Listeners Choice category!!!

Whether you’re a fan or a friend, don’t forget to cast a vote for the 2026 @signalawards LISTENER’S CHOICE nominees. Folks are pouring their heart and soul into making these awesome shows, let’s show em’ some love!

head to https://www.signalaward.com/ and search for the show to cast your vote for before midnight tonight!

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Last December, Question Everything’s @brihreed spoke to Frances Haugen, the whistleblower who in 2021 leaked tens of thousands of documents about Facebook and its role pushing users into extremist groups ahead of the 2020 election, as well as its platforms dangers to kids. She’s also the central figure in Aaron’s Sorkin’s latest film “The Social Reckoning”, a sequel to his 2010 hit “The Social Network” about Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s evolution. (She’s played by Mikey Madison.) Haugen broke down how Instagram and Facebook’s algorithms actually work and why the platforms continue to lead their users to shocking, horrifying, and extremist posts and communities even when that goes against their policies.

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As David Ellison and Skydance consolidate control over CNN and CBS News after last week’s merger with Warner Bros., Connecticut Attorney General William Tong tells Question Everything he’s “angry” and worried for the future of journalism. Earlier this year, Tong, along with 11 other AGs slapped Skydance with an antitrust lawsuit blocking the deal, alleging Ellison would create a media monopoly. But Tong says what he was especially worried about in the deal is the impact it’ll have on independent news. Still, the state AGs ultimately settled without requiring CNN, CBS News, or any other networks or assets to be carved out of the merger, and it was finalized last Tuesday.

In an unusually frank interview, Tong reflects with @brihreed on what went wrong with their case, what the new mega-company Skydance will mean for independent news in America, and why he doesn’t regret standing up for journalism, even if it gave David Ellison an opening to attack him.

Hit the link in our bio to listen to the latest Question Everything episode and follow us for more.

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Just a few weeks ago, David Ellison and Paramount were staring down the barrel of a $7 million per day fine for every day their merger with Warner Bros was not finalized, with a 12 state antitrust lawsuit standing in the way. The states, led by California attorney general Rob Bonta, seemed to have Ellison backed into a corner.

But then, in what seemed like an abrupt 180, Bonta announced a settlement with Paramount that allowed the merger to go through. The deal closed this week, officially giving Trump allies David and his father Larry Ellison control over vast swaths of the entertainment industry, including CBS News and CNN and a whole lot more.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is mad the states didn’t fight harder. In an unusually frank interview, he reflects with @brihreed on what went wrong with their case, what the new mega-company Skydance will mean for independent news in America, and why he doesn’t regret standing up for journalism, even if it gave David Ellison an opening to attack him.

Hit the link in our bio to listen to the latest Question Everything episode and follow us for more.

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On Thursday morning, David Ellison rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange to officially mark the merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. This means David and his father Larry Ellison, who is a close friend of President Donald Trump, will be able to influence CNN and CBS News.

@brihreed reached out to Marius Dragomir who studies the way authoritarian regimes around the world are able to kneecap the independent media in their countries in something called “media capture.” Hungary is a textbook example: by doing things like weaponizing the media regulator and getting rich friends to buy up private media companies, former Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his party weren able to co-opt most of the press and crush independent outlets.

Marius told Brian that he was “flabbergasted” by the way this merger, and therefore media capture, has come to fruition so quickly in the U.S. This comes just weeks after 12 states settled their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount for the merger.

Hit the link in our bio to listen to the latest Question Everything episode and follow us for more.

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Our team at Question Everything is honored to be nominated for six different awards for the 5th annual @SignalAwards highlighting risk-takers and daring creators in podcasting. From our episode showcasing @drewharwell’s reporting on internal messages that show how badly ICE officials wanted to go viral to a 20-year-old’s lawsuit against Instagram over its addictive features and its destruction of their childhood, Question Everything is a weekly investigation into how truth gets buried, distorted and denied—and how people are fighting to make it matter again.

Thank you to our listeners for all your support which powers our mission. To vote:

Click “SIGNAL AWARDS” in our link in bio Click search and type in “Question Everything” Head to each category press “VOTE” for Question Everything’s episode
Swipe through for a more detailed description of each of the six episodes we are nominated for. Our last slide has a video instructional on how to vote.

Again, we are honored to be among such an intrepid field of finalists and thank you again for the support. #SignalAwards

Many people were surprised that ICE officer Jonathan Ross was filming with his phone when he shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. But Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell was leaked thousands of internal ICE messages that show the agency is obsessed with creating viral videos, and is using arrests of immigrants slapped with “hooky” captions and pop music to feed their content machine.

In the span of two days, juries handed down landmark verdicts against Meta and Google. In New Mexico, a jury ordered Meta to pay the state $375 million for failing to protect young people from predators on Instagram. And in Los Angeles, a jury found that Meta and Google knowingly designed social media platforms that addicted a young girl, causing depression, body dysmorphia, and self-harm.

But as listeners to this show might wonder – isn’t suing social media companies supposed to be impossible, because of Section 230?

Brian talks to co-lead counsel in LA, Mariana McConnell, about how they pulled off the win, what this huge verdict means for the internet, and the internal Meta document that said, “Young ones ar

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Some of my votes for Listener's Choice in @signalawards 👏 A bewildering list of categories! Good luck - especially to the 1% er! 🤞 #signalawards

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