Episode 5: What happens when all the good people leave social media?

Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell · Jan 30, 2026 · 1h 2m

What happens when the good people leave social media?

Chloé Valdary walked away from 110,000 followers on social media. Not a quiet, lurking exit — but a hard delete.Chloé was a force of nature on Twitter. She built a huge following helping people navigate some of the platform’s thorniest issues with grace and empathy. While many cancelled and called out, Chloé dove headfirst into the hardest conversations offering deep reflection and a dose of savvy humanizing. From George Floyd to Gaza, she was there, helping to deescalate.

Then she left.

In this episode, we unpack what it means when…