Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets

Introducing "Click Here"

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Ep 6: Showdown

The relentless fight to hold Big Tech accountable ends up in the courts with billion dollar lawsuits against tech giants. Will the push to tackle decades of tech immunity help Paul and Sage who continue to demand justice and change to protect kids. With the rapid expansion of AI, the stakes have never been higher. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Ep 5: Willful Blindness

Australia takes a bold step to push back on Big Tech, setting up sweeping world-first laws banning children and teenagers from social media. It sets off a high stakes battle of wills and things get very ugly for Australia's e-safety commissioner. Paul finds himself face-to-face with his abuser. And we step inside the life of a tough cop who's spent decades trying to save kids. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Ep 4: On the Hotseat

As they fight to clean up the internet, Sage and Paul deal with mountains of notices that indicate an epidemic of illegal content like the visual images taken during their childhood. Big Tech leaders face scrutiny in the US Senate for how they are handling one of the darkest secrets of the internet. Meantime, the Winnipeg Arachnid team and their global network partners are vigilant 24/7. They pull out all stops to save kids in real time. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Ep 3: The Evidence Catcher

Lianna has spent her whole career protecting kids. Inspired by Sage and her goals to help other survivors get illegal images off the internet, Lianna and her non-profit team push boundaries and create Arachnid, the mother of all web crawlers, to hunt down CSAM images in the darkest corners of the internet. But nothing prepared the Arachnid team for the firehose of what they found and that ended up putting the tiny Canadian non-profit on the global stage to take on Big Tech. From TVO Podcasts, the Investigative Journalism Bureau, The Toronto Star, and Piz Gloria Productions, this six-part podcast series follows the survivors' long-shot fight against the most powerful companies in the world to end a massive, global trade in child sex abuse imagery. Ep 3: The Evidence Catcher Follow TVO on social:   https://www.youtube.com/theagenda  https://www.instagram.com/theagendatvo/?hl=en   Join our newsletter:   https://www.tvo.org/newsletters   Visit the TVO Today website for current affairs journalism, documentaries and podcasts:   https://www.tvo.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.