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In-depth reporting on the world of social media.

Episodes (190)

What happens after you go viral?

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May 2, 202025:11pending

How scammers are exploiting coronavirus fears

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Apr 18, 202025:46pending

How coronavirus is changing online dating

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Apr 11, 202028:35pending

How to stop viral misinformation

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Apr 4, 202018:35pending

How bad coronavirus info goes viral

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Mar 28, 202019:55pending

The fight against Poland’s ‘LGBT free zones’

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Mar 21, 202019:38pending

What happened when a troll met his target?

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Mar 13, 202024:02pending

Did Russia leak British secrets online?

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Mar 6, 202020:40pending

Life after YouTube fame

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Feb 28, 202026:06pending

The ‘online slave market’ aided by Silicon Valley

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Nov 30, 201918:42pending

The grannies against the far-right

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Nov 23, 201922:06pending

How 'state-sponsored trolling' works

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Nov 16, 201918:41pending

The ‘lifeguard’ who saves women on Instagram

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Nov 8, 201918:18pending

The Instagram suicide network

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Nov 1, 201923:50pending

The rise of the 'Brazilian butt lift'

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Oct 25, 201923:27pending

Why Greek activists are telling tourists to leave

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Oct 18, 201924:39pending

Cuba’s digital revolution

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Oct 11, 201950:40pending

Can an algorithm be racist?

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Oct 4, 201923:09pending

How worried should we be about deepfakes?

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Sep 27, 201923:49pending

The problem with the viral celery juice ‘cure’

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Sep 20, 201923:19pending

Algeria’s disinformation battle

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Sep 13, 201923:49pending

The hunt for red mercury

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Sep 6, 201923:14pending

Living with China’s social media censorship

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Aug 30, 201924:40pending

We were promised a baby on Instagram

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Aug 23, 201922:44pending

Facebook’s market for illicit antiquities

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Aug 16, 201923:03pending

The people who want humans to stop having babies

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Aug 9, 201923:04pending

Can YouTube be trusted?

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Aug 2, 201925:32pending

How influential is a pro-Trump conspiracy theory?

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Jul 19, 201923:34pending

Is YouTube to blame for the rise of flat Earth?

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Jul 12, 201924:18pending

The Emirati women fleeing their faith and family

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Jul 5, 201922:09pending

How scammers took advantage of #BlueForSudan

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Jun 28, 201923:41pending

The man who kick-started the Egyptian revolution

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Jun 21, 201923:57pending

The 23-year-old fixing the world of online debate

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Jun 14, 201923:47pending

The volunteers fighting hate on Facebook

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Jun 7, 201922:17pending

When threatening private messages go public

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May 31, 201923:45pending

How YouTube decides what you should watch

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May 24, 201922:34pending

Is Russia trying to sway the European elections?

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May 17, 201924:02pending

What’s boosting the ‘Brazilian Butt Lift’?

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May 10, 201923:20pending

How to survive the digital age

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May 3, 201922:41pending

The fight for South Africa’s future

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Apr 26, 201923:00pending

Fake news and false confessions in Sudan protests

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Apr 19, 201922:28pending

Jered Threatin: The fake rock star

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Apr 12, 201923:23pending

TikTok’s problem with online predators

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Apr 5, 201923:35pending

‘I invested in Facebook … now I am ashamed’

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Mar 29, 201922:30pending

Decoding far-right online hate after Christchurch

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Mar 22, 201923:23pending

The people behind US political violence (Part 2 of 2)

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Mar 15, 201922:35pending

The people behind US political violence (Part 1 of 2)

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Mar 8, 201923:04pending

‘I hunt trolls’

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Mar 1, 201923:41pending

The hackers who cracked printers for PewDiePie

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Feb 22, 201922:53pending

The man reporting on Africa’s most secretive state

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Feb 15, 201923:29pending