'We Don't Hate Journalists Enough': The Story of an F-ed Up Deepfake
When journalist Julia Mengolini criticized her country’s president, Javier Milei, she didn’t expect to be targeted with one of the more disturbing uses of AI: a pornographic deepfake video designed to...
13 Nov 202546min
A Government Whistleblower Trusts a Newsroom, Ends Up in Prison
When NSA contractor Reality Winner leaked proof that Russia had tried to break into the U.S. election system, she thought she was helping her country. Instead, she got the longest federal prison sente...
6 Nov 202540min
How Trump is Capturing America’s Media – Without a Coup
Veteran foreign correspondent Natalia Antelava has spent 15 years reporting from places where authoritarian regimes have “captured” the media. In other words, they control the dominant messages coming...
30 Okt 202540min
TikTok Stars on the Politicians Begging Them for Exposure
What happens when TikTokers replace TV hosts and interviewers, and presidential candidates start begging to be on their shows? Brian Reed sits down in a Brooklyn wine shop with four of the internet’s ...
23 Okt 202538min
‘I Believed Sandy Hook Was a Hoax’
Kate grew up believing the Sandy Hook school shooting was an elaborate false flag operation. For years she thought the 20 elementary school children and six educators who were killed that day did not ...
16 Okt 202547min
Betraying a Friendship to Get a Viral Story
This episode of Death, Sex, and Money is a recommendation from our contributing editor Jen Kinney. When blogger AJ Daulerio broke the Brett Favre sexting scandal in 2010, it became one of the biggest...
9 Okt 202555min
The Film the BBC Wouldn’t Air
Two veteran journalists set out to document Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system: hospitals attacked, medical workers killed, doctors detained without charge. The BBC commission...
2 Okt 202545min
Brian Takes on Big Tech
When late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was forced off the air, it raised huge questions about who really controls what we’re allowed to say. From billionaires and politicians to social media platforms and ...
25 Sep 202529min
