Season 4 Episodes
1. Anabolic Steroids: The Muscle Market
Anabolic steroids are freely available online. Influencers encourage their followers to use steroid on Instagram and TikTok and they are easy to order on Telegram. How can a dangerous substance be so easy to get hold of?
2. Facial Recognition: Tech Firms and Surveillance
High-resolution cameras, facial recognition software, state-of-the-art video surveillance centres: Data Sources reveals how Western companies are helping the authoritarian regime in Kazakhstan to create a mass surveillance system.
3. North Korea: Hunting Down Fugitives
Citizens of North Korea trying to flee the country risk their lives. The route through neighbouring China has become a trap as Beijing tracks and deports North Koreans back home with the help of the latest technology.
4. From Plumber to Oligarch: Hungary's Richest Man
How does a small circle close to the government dominate Hungary’s economy? Data Sources investigates the richest man in the country, a childhood friend of Viktor Orban, and how European funds are being used for dubious projects.
5. In the jungle of neobanks: Scams, illegal trading and deceived customers
Lack of transparency, lax controls, money laundering: Are neobanks encouraging financial fraud and identity abuse? A look at the downside of the banking revolution. Over the last decade, the banking sector has experienced a digital revolution. Apps have replaced branches, chatbots have replaced advisors, and hundreds of new players have flooded the market. But the miraculous transformation of the banking sector also harbors dangers. Data Sources investigated the downside of the banking revolution.
6. Investigation into this French company that helps the Russian Army
This is a French group that, in theory, has nothing to do with the defense sector: it specializes in commodities trading and sugar production. In Russia, it has about fifteen facilities and employs 4,000 people.
