Truth and Power - Season 1

Season 1

Episodes

#BlackLivesMatter
A group of young activists ignited a twenty-first century civil rights movement with Black Lives Matter and now the FBI, along with local law enforcement, is tracking their organization's every move.

Government-Sponsored Spyware
The lucrative and growing business of government-sponsored spyware is examined through the eyes of two young Moroccan activists and the team of innovative hackers who uncovered the source of their online surveillance.

The Stingray
Daniel Rigmaiden, a convicted felon turned whistleblower, discovers a secret government technology intercepting his personal information and publicly exposes the collection of unsuspecting Americans' private information.

Prisoners for Sale
Two former prisoners turned muckraking journalists explore the question: what happens when multi-billion dollar companies treat human beings as revenue streams?

Activists or Terrorists?
A journalist and a punk-rocker academic team up to use freedom of information laws to uncover a troubling link between the U.S. government and big agriculture, which target animal rights activists.

Shooting the Messenger
Equipped only with smart phones, citizen journalists expose controversial police tactics. They set out to effect change within law enforcement with their bold guerilla reporting and, along the way, forever change how the public gets information.

Hacking the Presidency
A Harvard professor ventures out of the Ivory Tower and leaps head first into the cutthroat race for the presidency with a bold goal: to completely overhaul the campaign finance system.

Data Vampires
A diverse group of civil liberties advocates come together to battle data vampires, little known corporate entities that gather and manipulate people's personal information in an effort to influence consumer behavior with startling specificity.

Camp Justice
A small chain of islands in the Indian Ocean was the site of closely guarded secrets from the War on Terror. The island's native inhabitants, and their advocates, fight to uncover the island's role in that war and regain access to their homeland.

Flying Robots
Drones already cloud America's skies, but will weaponized drones, already used by the military, become commonplace? A group of activists battle to regulate this Wild West of tech.
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