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Love and deception in the age of AI

How is AI redefining love on Tinder?

• 19 mins

Is Russia targeting Poland's farmers鈥� protests?

A pro-Russian image from a farmers protest in Poland went viral. Who's the man behind it?

• 20 mins

The Kenyan influencer championing climate denial

How a Kenyan farmer became the flag bearer for fossil fuels in Africa

• 18 mins

Colombia鈥檚 guerrilla recruitment video problem

Fighters from dissident armed groups in Colombia are using TikTok to recruit youngsters.

• 17 mins

Trending is moving to the Documentary Podcast

New episodes of Trending can be found in the 麻豆约拍 World Service's Documentary Podcast

• 1 min

The American pushing Russian disinformation

An American ex-cop living in Moscow is pumping out messages targeting American voters

• 17 mins

Scammed by the fake Chinese police

The con men who threaten to extradite their victims to China if you don鈥檛 pay 鈥渂ail鈥�

• 17 mins

The scammers who make you kidnap yourself

Why are criminals tricking Chinese foreign students into faking their own kidnapping?

• 17 mins

Can we live without our phones?

Marianna Spring investigates the impact of social media on teens.

• 17 mins

Iran: Woman, life, surveillance

We speak to women targeted by the Iranian government after posting on social media

• 17 mins

An (online) storm in a Philippine rainforest

How a nature reserve in the Philippines got caught in an information battle

• 17 mins

The Baku initiative?

Is Azerbaijan capitalising on France鈥檚 struggle in the South Pacific?

• 17 mins

The curse of the blessing scam

The female crooks who exploit superstition and family love to swindle other women.

• 17 mins

Yami Baito: Inside Japan鈥檚 dark part-time jobs

How job postings on social media are luring people into organised crime in Japan.

• 17 mins

Meet the anti-witch hunter

Meet the man who intervenes to protect people accused of witchcraft across Africa.

• 17 mins

The cost of an addiction to Somali TikTok 'battles'

Cash-strapped and verbally abused 鈥� players of the TikTok game taking Somalia by storm.

• 17 mins