Dark Web Exposed

Exploring the shocking intersection of crime and social media; from deepfake creators to criminal streamers, new technologies are amplifying anti-social behavior and disrupting traditional investigative techniques like never before.

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Status	Returning Series
Original Name	Dark Web Exposed
First Air Date	March 27, 2019
Last Air Date	May 30, 2020
Seasons	2
Episodes	12
Episode Runtime	10min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	—
Production Companies
Networks	Oxygen

S02E06

Misinformation Superhighway

In February 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the world, the director general of the World Health Organization warned of another danger. “We are not just fighting a pandemic, we are fighting an infodemic,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Now with more than 220,000 U.S. deaths, misinformation about the pandemic has spread across social media not just from Russia and China but from domestic actors and politicians with fatal results.

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