Truth and Power - Episode Guide

Season 1

#BlackLivesMatter

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 22, 2016 (30 min)

#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

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 29, 2016 (30 min)

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

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2016 (30 min)

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

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2016 (30 min)

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?

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2016 (30 min)

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

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 26, 2016 (30 min)

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

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 4, 2016 (30 min)

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

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2016 (30 min)

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

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 18, 2016 (30 min)

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

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 25, 2016 (30 min)

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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