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Season 2020

  • S2020E01 I Exposed a Fake COVID-19 Vaccine Scam

    • October 7, 2020
    • YouTube

    After fake vaccines sprung up online during the COVID-19 pandemic, a professional ‘scambaiter’, set about uncovering them. We met him as he trolls and exposes the scammers using an old lady persona and voice distortion software.

  • S2020E02 The Rise of the Step Chickens - Building a Cult on TikTok

    • October 21, 2020
    • YouTube

    The largest TikTok cult now has over two million followers who have pledged allegiance to its leader the "Mother Hen". We met Melissa Ong, 27, who explains how she created the Step Chickens, fought battles against other cults and continues to grow her following.

  • S2020E03 I Solved a 30-Year-Old Murder Mystery Using the Internet

    • November 4, 2020
    • YouTube

    When Todd Matthews first tried to work out the identity of ‘Tent Girl’, an unknown woman who’d been found dead wrapped in a canvas sheet, it seemed impossible. Then the internet came along.

  • S2020E04 The Hackers Searching for Missing People

    • November 18, 2020
    • YouTube

    Robert Sell leads teams of hackers in competitions to find missing people. His Project, Trace Labs, selects missing people cases and then awards hackers points for finding information and any digital footprints to help crack the case.

  • S2020E05 The Gamer Who Flew “Killer Drones” for the US Army

    • December 2, 2020
    • YouTube

    The US Army’s use of killer drones has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Brandon Bryant, a gamer, flew those drones. He tells us what life was like within the drone programme and why he decided to become a whistleblower.

Season 2021

  • S2021E01 I Finding a Dead Body on Google Maps

    • January 13, 2021
    • YouTube

    Jerry Nyman works for the School District of Palm Beach County and his job regularly involves using Google Maps to check bus routes. Whilst undertaking a routine search in 2019, Jerry thought he could see a car in one of the man made lakes within a residential community in Florida.

  • S2021E02 I’m the Victim of a Far Right Conspiracy Theory

    • February 17, 2021
    • YouTube

    From Head of Antifa to the QAnon Shaman, Spencer Sunshine has been accused of being countless different figures by far-right groups in retaliation for his work as a journalist reporting on extremism.

  • S2021E03 I Exposed a Russian Assassination Squad

    • March 12, 2021
    • YouTube

    Eliot Higgins has exposed a Russian assassination squad, solved the mystery of how the MH17 plane was shot down and become an enemy of the Russian State.

  • S2021E04 Falsely Accused of Pedophilia Online - Guy Babcock

    • March 24, 2021
    • YouTube

    A vicious troll destroyed Guy Babcock’s reputation by writing hundreds of posts calling him a "pedophile, thief and scammer.”

  • S2021E05 I Accidentally Discovered My Long Lost Twin on TikTok

    • April 21, 2021
    • YouTube

    “When I saw her, I was so shocked that I started crying. I couldn't even say a word. Never in my life did I think I would have a twin.” Indonesian teenager Nadya is a regular Tik Toker but she didn’t expect to meet someone who looked exactly like her online. This is a story of an uncanny connection made through social media.

  • S2021E06 How I Made and Lost $1M Trading Crypto

    • April 29, 2021
    • YouTube

    Like tens of millions of people, in 2017 Peter McCormack decided to get involved in Bitcoin -- the digital cryptocurrency that allows for direct, transparent financial transactions without a central bank. Unlike most people, he became a millionaire. Riding the highs of cryptocurrency trading, Peter began living a life of luxury, convinced he had figured out the secret of easy wealth. But just as soon as he had become a Bitcoin millionaire, he lost it all again. Now, armed with expert knowledge from his Bitcoin podcast, he's investing smarter and still all in one HODLing Bitcoin to the moon.

  • S2021E07 The Person Behind the Viral Tom Cruise Deepfake

    • May 13, 2021
    • YouTube

    We spoke to VFX artist Chris Ume about the time his scarily convincing deepfake of Tom Cruise went viral on TikTok culminating in around 100 million views.

  • S2021E08 Uncovering a Secret FBI Spy Plane Program

    • May 27, 2021
    • YouTube

    John Wiseman is a planespotter. He spends his days tracking radio data from planes across the country, logging them and mapping their movements.

  • S2021E09 My Nyan Cat Meme Sold For $590K

    • June 30, 2021
    • YouTube

    Nyan Cat’s creator Chris Torres made one of the internet’s best-known memes. Ten years later, he sold it for more than half a million dollars.

  • S2021E10 The TikTok Murder Cleanup Team

    • July 27, 2021
    • YouTube

    We speak with Laura Spaulding, the founder of a company that does crime scene, hoarding, meth-lab, and other complex cleanups.

  • S2021E11 Exposing Dubai’s Exotic Animal Trade via Instagram

    • September 2, 2021
    • YouTube

    Foeke Postma, an investigative journalist at Bellingcat, used fake Instagram accounts to follow people, reverse search images, geolocate pictures, and watch videos frame by frame to identify customers and exotic animal suppliers in Dubai.

  • S2021E12 “I Left Anonymous. Now I'm Back”

    • September 21, 2021
    • YouTube

    Aubrey Cottle (AKA Kirtaner) is one of the key movers of one of the biggest hacking groups in the world, Anonymous.

  • S2021E13 Uncovering Stories of the Dead on TikTok

    • September 29, 2021
    • YouTube

    We meet Caitlin Abrams, who has gone viral for cleaning old gravestones and sharing stories about the lives and deaths of the people who lie underneath them.

  • S2021E14 I Hunt Down Internet Trolls

    • October 17, 2021
    • YouTube

    Meet TikTok’s Masked Vigilante, who has made it his mission to track down and expose online bullies, scammers and trolls. If you’re racist, sexist, or generally abusive he may have you in his sights.

  • S2021E15 Going Inside the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

    • October 31, 2021
    • YouTube

    35 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, parts of Chernobyl are still too radioactive for people to go to.

  • S2021E16 How To Spot a Deepfake Video

    • November 21, 2021
    • YouTube

    A.I. expert, Matthew Stamm, can identify deepfakes by 'dusting for digital fingerprints'. But it's a game of cat and mouse -- as soon as the 'good guys' figure out a way to identify a deepfake, the people making the fake content adapt.

Season 2022

  • S2022E01 I Stop Multimillion-Dollar Cyberattacks

    • January 30, 2022
    • YouTube

    Kurtis Minder is the middleman between hackers and companies with a lot to lose. He liaises with criminals, either for the release of data that’s being held hostage, or for assurances that the bad guys won't release sensitive information – including trade secrets, or personal information about high-ranking employees.

  • S2022E02 Catching Pedophiles Using AI

    • February 23, 2022
    • YouTube

    Sue Black has dedicated her life to catching child sex abusers. In the fight against some of the world’s most horrendous crimes Sue explains that although DNA has often been the gold standard, hands may hold the key to catching sex abusers.

  • S2022E03 The YouTuber Recovering Missing Bodies

    • February 15, 2022
    • YouTube

    Diver Jared Leisek ​finds the bodies of people who have been missing underwater. Sometimes they have been missing for weeks, sometimes it’s been decades.

  • S2022E04 Hunting For Missing Women the Media Ignores

    • March 18, 2022
    • YouTube

    Tens of thousands of Black girls and women go missing every year, but their faces are rarely the ones we see on the news.

  • S2022E05 We Uncovered an ISIS Mass Grave

    • April 11, 2022
    • YouTube

    In Syria’s Raqqa, locals tell stories of a mass grave used by ISIS to dump bodies. By using a drone and gathering evidence posted online, the Digital Investigations Lab at Human Rights Watch pieces together what happened, and who may be down there.

  • S2022E06 Hunting for Russia’s Mega-Rich

    • April 26, 2022
    • YouTube

    As the world watches the war unfold in Ukraine, many normal people with unique skills are done feeling helpless.

  • S2022E07 I Debunk Putin's Lies

    • June 3, 2022
    • YouTube

    Denials and blame-shifting have long been the go-to for Putin’s regime. But since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin disinformation machine has gone into overdrive.

  • S2022E08 Ukrainians Are Bombing Russians with Custom Drones

    • June 17, 2022
    • YouTube

    An elite group of drone operators is leading the charge in Ukraine’s David-and-Goliath defence against Putin’s Russia.

  • S2022E09 The Forensic Artist Solving Cold Cases

    • June 30, 2022
    • YouTube

    Paloma Galzi is one of a handful of full-time forensic artists in the U.S. Combining science and art, her work creates age progressions of long-term missing children. Her work on cases has successfully brought numerous missing kids home safely.

  • S2022E10 How I Sabotaged Starbucks

    • July 15, 2022
    • YouTube

    Coder and TikToker, Sean Wiggs, regularly asks his followers to spam anti-union employers with fake job applications.

  • S2022E11 I Expose the Worst Landlords

    • July 28, 2022
    • YouTube

    In January 2020, Kwajo Tweneboa watched his father fall ill with terminal cancer. But rather than dying in peaceful surroundings, their South London housing association home was full of cockroaches, mice and mould.

  • S2022E12 What North Korea Doesn’t Want You To See

    • September 21, 2022
    • YouTube

    Blogger Jacob Bogle often receives this warning, “State-sponsored actors are attempting to hack into your account.”

  • S2022E13 Inside Russia’s Military Collapse

    • October 26, 2022
    • YouTube

    Russian soldiers are banned from using their smartphones. But a lack of discipline and a desire for attention means they use them anyway. Their posts online provide a wealth of data about their side of the war.

  • S2022E14 Beating Scammers at Their Own Game

    • November 24, 2022
    • YouTube

    It's hacker versus scammer. Scam baiter beats call center scammers at their own game. He’s able to hack their computer systems and watch their every move as they try to trick people out of their life savings.

  • S2022E15 IRANWIRE

    • December 17, 2022
    • YouTube

    In Iran, journalism is a dangerous game. As the regime kills protestors on the street, citizens are determined to get the word out to the rest of the world. But, how do you expose a government which views information as the enemy and arrests, tortures, and even kills journalists?

Season 2023

  • S2023E01 Why You Should Be Worried About China’s Nukes

    • February 12, 2023
    • YouTube

    China is expanding its nuclear weapons arsenal, and fast. The country already boasts the world’s largest land-based missile force, and soon that group could be in possession of more than 350 nuclear warheads.

  • S2023E02 How Influencers Cover Up Crimes Against Humanity

    • March 22, 2023
    • YouTube

    Influencers are the new face of Chinese propaganda. Hidden amongst the vlogs about puppies and makeup, they clandestinely allow Beijing to whitewash its crimes against humanity.

  • S2023E03 The Truth Behind Brazil's Murder Rates

    • April 21, 2023
    • YouTube

    Gangs, cops, and militias have a choke-hold on some of Brazil’s neighbourhoods. As these groups battle for power, innocent people are massacred in the crossfire.