Understood

CBC

Deepfake porn is a billion-click industry built on stolen faces, while the people making it hide theirs behind screens. Hosted by journalist Sam Cole, Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire traces the decades-long rise of synthetic porn, the targets who are fighting back, and the global investigation that led to its Canadian kingpin.Understood takes you deep inside the seismic shifts reshaping our world right now. From online porn and crypto chaos to the rise of tech oligarchs, deepfake AI, and the broken promises of the internet — we explore the stories that define our digital age with hosts and characters embedded in th...

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Understood

Episodes (37)

Tue Feb 17th E1: The Dawn of Fake Porn
Fri Feb 13th Introducing Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire
Oct 28, 2025 The Making of Elon Musk | E4: The Great Trek

Understood

Feb 17, 2026
38 minutes
36 MB

When a streamer who goes by QTCinderella starts trending on Twitter, she isn’t expecting to see her face on a porn site — her face, doing things she never did. Because the videos weren’t of her. They were deepfakes. Instead of staying silent, QTCinderella decides to fight back. And her story raises a bigger question: how did we get to a world where anyone can be put into realistic-looking digital porn? The answer stretches back to the earliest days of the internet. Featuring archiva...

Understood

E1: The Dawn of Fake Porn

CBC

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