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  • AI chatbots can make election fakes. Can they spot them?

    October 30, 2026 · 24 min

    You used to need a government-backed operation to spread election disinformation. Now a chatbot might do. Larry Norden of the Brennan Center put the major AI chatbots to the test: Could they create election fakes? Debunk them? Even…

  • Russia’s election trick: hijacking what you already believe

    October 27, 2026 · 20 min

    What if Russia didn’t have to convince you of anything new? What if it could simply exploit what you already believe? That’s the idea behind a Russian-linked disinformation network that hijacks real social media conversations to spread…

  • The Social Security whistleblower who stopped DOGE from deleting 2.7 million lives

    October 23, 2026 · 22 min

    In Social Security’s database, a few keystrokes can turn a living person into a dead one. As part of a deportation scheme, DOGE pushed to do just that to 2.7 million people — without checking whether they were actually dead. Social…

  • If deepfakes are getting better, can we trust our lying eyes?

    October 20, 2026 · 24 min

    Deepfakes are getting harder to spot. But digital forensics expert Hany Farid says the bigger problem isn’t just that AI can fool us. It’s that even when something is real, people may refuse to believe it. What happens when seeing is no…

  • Government lawyers face a whistleblower’s dilemma

    October 16, 2026 · 14 min

    In 30 years of representing whistleblowers, national security attorney Mark Zaid has never had so many government lawyers come to him for advice. They’ve seen things inside the Trump administration that trouble them. And they want to blow…

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  • Frances Haugen’s social reckoning

    October 13, 2026 · 24 min

    Frances Haugen walked out of Facebook with more than 20,000 pages of internal documents. And somehow, nobody caught her. Now her story is getting the Hollywood treatment in Aaron Sorkin’s new movie, The Social Reckoning. But how did she…

  • Space is getting crowded. And nobody’s in charge

    October 9, 2026 · 12 min

    There’s a new space race underway. And this time, it’s not just about astronauts and moon landings. Companies are launching satellites by the thousands. Militaries are eyeing space as the next battlefield. And now people want to put AI…

  • Russia is building the internet Putin always wanted

    October 6, 2026 · 22 min

    Across Russia, the internet keeps going dark. The Kremlin says the blackouts are necessary to stop Ukrainian drones. But critics say it is really helping Vladimir Putin accomplish something he’s been working toward for years: an internet…

  • How AI can debunk a conspiracy theory in 8 minutes

    October 2, 2026 · 19 min

    Once someone believes a conspiracy theory, can anything change their mind? Researchers tried something unexpected: an AI chatbot. After just eight minutes of conversation, some conspiracy theorists were significantly less convinced. What…

  • How Bellingcat finds the truth in the age of AI

    September 29, 2026 · 20 min

    Eliot Higgins built Bellingcat on a simple idea: give enough people the right tools, and they can figure out what really happened. It’s called open-source intelligence, or OSINT. But AI can now generate convincing fakes in seconds. Higgins…

  • Who gets to decide what teens can do online?

    September 25, 2026 · 16 min

    States are passing age-verification laws designed to keep kids safer on social media. But figuring out who’s a kid means finding a way to check everyone’s age. Three decades after the first fights over kids’ rights online, we look at a new…

  • Taser drones in schools: Axon’s plan to stop school shootings

    September 22, 2026 · 29 min

    A Texas company is testing drones designed to stop school shooters using sirens, strobe lights and pepper spray. The idea isn’t new. In 2022, Taser-maker Axon proposed putting drones in schools — a plan that led most of its AI Ethics Board…

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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.