Season 1 Episodes
1. What facial recognition steals from us
December 10th, 2019
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.
2. Google and Amazon are now in the oil business
January 3rd, 2020
3. How ads follow you around the internet
February 3rd, 2020
4. Computers just got a lot better at writing
March 4th, 2020
5. Why coronavirus scammers can send fake emails from the WHO
April 2nd, 2020
6. The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn't politics
June 8th, 2020
7. Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?
July 31st, 2020
8. The problem with banning TikTok
August 29th, 2020
9. What voter suppression looks like online
September 30th, 2020
10. The Instagram aesthetic that made QAnon mainstream
October 28th, 2020
11. How '90s porn led to the internet's foundational law
November 30th, 2020
12. The real cost of smart speakers
December 28th, 2020
