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  • Inside a Russian Fake News Factory

    In this extra scene, Andrey Soshnikov, a reporter at BBC London, talks about breaking the story of a propaganda factory that operates in St. Petersburg. The troll farm is responsible for creating fake news and propaganda videos.

  • What is Memetic Magic?

    Major Grubert, a “memetic magician”, claims to influence millions by creating memes to spread his controversial ideas across the country.

  • Ben Makuch on CYBERWAR Season 2

    Tapping into the geopolitics of hacking and surveillance, Ben Makuch travels the world to meet with hackers, government officials, and social dissidents to investigate the eco-system of cyberwarfare.

  • CYBERWAR (Season 2 Trailer)

    From Islamabad to Mexico City, host Ben Makuch travels the globe to explore the world’s cyber battlegrounds, investigating the cutting edge weapons being used – and the people on both sides of the conflicts.

  • The AI Robot That Respects Personal Space

    Jackrabbot is a robot designed at Stanford University that navigates through crowds better than self-driving cars.

  • The Race for Artificial Intelligence

    From self-driving cars to Siri, a race is on to build more powerful AI. But some warn we could be programming our own extinction.

  • The Future of War

    The wars of the future might be fought with autonomous machines, drones and weapons that can act on their own. But is it ever OK to write code that can kill?

  • Chased By Drones

    Drones are now intelligent enough to work together as a swarm. Ben Makuch imagines what the future of this technology might be.

  • Bogachev and Russia’s Cyber Black Market

    A conversation on Russia’s notorious hacker Bogachev and the online free market where hackers can be commissioned by anyone. 

  • Lights Out In Ukraine

    A cyber attack on Ukraine’s power grid leaves thousands of people in the dark. As a military conflict involving Russia rages in the east, has the ground war led to cyberwar?

  • An Israeli High School That Trains Future Cyber Warriors

    Ben Makuch meets high schoolers in Israel who are being groomed as future cyber warriors for the military.

  • The Only Reporter to Interview the Ashley Madison Hackers

    Ben speaks with journalist and Motherboard contributor Joseph Cox, who published the only interview with the Impact Team who hacked Ashley Madison.​​

  • The Ashley Madison Hack

    After Ashley Madison, a hook-up site for married people, got hacked, its users weren’t the only ones exposed. Turns out the cheating site may have been cheating its own customers.

  • An Interview with Discordian of Anonymous

    Ben interviews Discordian, one of the most influential voices among hacktivist collective Anonymous.​

  • How Anti-ISIS Hacktivists Are Helping the Government

    Ben speaks with anti-ISIS activist and GhostSec operative Sneaker as well as Michael S. Smith II, a counterterrorism advisor to Congress.​

  • America’s Elite Hacking Force

    Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, is the NSA’s elite hacking force. TAO employs some of America’s best hackers–so who are their targets?​​