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143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information.
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins has been working with young people not just to show them how to sort fact from fiction, but to give them a reason to…
2 years ago
142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth.
Antibot4Navalny is a small but mighty group of anonymous researchers calling out Russian disinformation — and punching way above their weight.
Learn …2 years ago
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape
Omny Miranda Martone has been working with a handful of Washington lawmakers for more than a year on legislation that would put an end to the impunit…
2 years ago
140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus?
After years of shouting into the wind about deepfakes and deepfake porn, we take a look at some possible solutions that offer not just deterrence but…
2 years ago
139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
The GhostSec hacktivist group used to be known for its cyberattacks against terrorist groups like ISIS. Then, last year, the group took an unexpected…
2 years ago
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
Infostealers commit close to the perfect crime. They sneak into your computer, grab your logins, passwords, and anything of value, and then delete th…
2 years ago
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
As Russian forces zero in on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, drones are among the weapons that are coming to the rescue. We went to a secret …
2 years ago
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
A hacktivist group called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans rocked Belarus when it hacked into government servers and released secret police files and g…
2 years, 1 month ago
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
Oren Etzioni used to be one of those AI optimists. Now, not so much. In fact, he’s so worried about AI-manipulated content, he created a non-profit, …
2 years, 1 month ago
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
US adversaries are on a propaganda offensive around the world. Earlier this month, the Council on Foreign Relations in DC convened a discussion about…
2 years, 1 month ago