Season 1

Episode 1

S1 · E1 · 10/12/2019

What facial recognition steals from us

Human faces evolved to be highly distinctive; it’s helpful to be able to recognize individual members of one’s social group and quickly identify strangers, and that hasn’t changed for hundreds of thousands of years. Then in just the past five years, the meaning of the human face has quietly but seismically shifted. That’s because researchers at Facebook, Google, and other institutions have nearly perfected techniques for automated facial recognition.

Episode 2

S1 · E2 · 03/01/2020

Google and Amazon are now in the oil business

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Episode 3

S1 · E3 · 03/02/2020

How ads follow you around the internet

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Episode 4

S1 · E4 · 04/03/2020

Computers just got a lot better at writing

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Episode 5

S1 · E5 · 02/04/2020

Why coronavirus scammers can send fake emails from the WHO

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Episode 6

S1 · E6 · 08/06/2020

The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn't politics

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Episode 7

S1 · E7 · 31/07/2020

Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?

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Episode 8

S1 · E8 · 29/08/2020

The problem with banning TikTok

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Episode 9

S1 · E9 · 30/09/2020

What voter suppression looks like online

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Episode 10

S1 · E10 · 28/10/2020

The Instagram aesthetic that made QAnon mainstream

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Episode 11

S1 · E11 · 30/11/2020

How '90s porn led to the internet's foundational law

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Episode 12

S1 · E12 · 28/12/2020

The real cost of smart speakers

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