Scary Tech Stories

Technology is scary. It can indoctrinate people into dangerous conspiracies theories, sway elections and strip away privacy.

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How Vulnerable Are You to Hackers?

In this episode about teenage hackers, host Alex Goldman learns how vulnerable he is when it comes to online security. From Reply All.

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How 4chan and 8chan Spawned QAnon

What are 4chan and 8chan? Should we be afraid of these sites? And what's their connection to QAnon? From On Point.

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Manipulating Twitter to Sway the Election

New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz talks about how alt-right trolls used twitter to damage Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. On Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard.

Manipulating Twitter to Sway the Election

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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China's Social Credit Score

China's hyper-surveillance of its citizenry is creating Black Mirror-like disasters. On Raw Data.

Raw Data

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The Latest in Deepfakes

A new Tom Cruise deepfake is floating around the web and it looks more realistic than ever. Ben Makuch and Sam Kole describe how this technology, which is powerful enough to ruin people's lives, is only getting more accurate.

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Mexico's Internet Trolls

When Mexico's leading political party, the PRI, started losing elections in 2000, they made a drastic move to try and win back political power. PJ Vogt talks to one woman at the center of the campaign. On Reply All.

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Scary Tech Stories

How Vulnerable Are You to Hackers?

Reply All

How 4chan and 8chan Spawned QAnon

On Point

Manipulating Twitter to Sway the Election

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

China's Social Credit Score

Raw Data

The Latest in Deepfakes

CYBER

Mexico's Internet Trolls

Reply All

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