Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets
Every day tens of millions of images of child sexual abuse are circulating on global online platforms. The children depicted in those criminal images are real. Many are now adults held hostage by these disturbing images despite available technology like Canada’s Project Arachnid, which detects these images and sends out removal notices.
In this six-part podcast series, a group of survivors and motivated supporters band together across the globe to take on some of the biggest and most powerful tech companies in the world.
Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets podcast
Episode 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.
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Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets podcast
Episode 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.
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Episode 2: The Solution
Sage is visited by a detective who spreads out his visual evidence. She is confronted with the reality of the global trade in the illegal images of her childhood abuse. She is determined to fight back and take on the ongoing battle to remove them. The podcast producers track down the unlikely team of a creative software engineer and a conscientious lawyer who invented photo DNA. The technology identifies and removes known images of child exploitation from the internet. So if there’s a solution that's been around for decades, why aren’t we using it?
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Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets podcast
Episode 1: Speaking Out
What if your worst nightmare played on repeat over and over on anonymous computer screens all over the world? That’s a daily reality for adult survivors of childhood abuse like Paul and Sage and many others like them. The cluster bomb of those horrific images of them as kids continues to hold them hostage. But they’re fighting back and speaking out publicly for the first time. They team up with a feisty group of global sentinels to take on some of the most powerful tech companies in the world to combat the spread of illegal CSAM material.
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Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets podcast
Introducing Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets
Official Trailer for Arachnid, a New Investigative Podcast Uncovering the Web’s Darkest Secrets.
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