Podcast terbaik Manipulation (2025)

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Miracle Blood: Theranos and the Silicon Valley Illusion 19:53

7h ago19:53

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Miracle Blood: Theranos and the Silicon Valley Illusion is a gritty investigative narrative that follows the rise and collapse of one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated startups. Promising hundreds of medical tests from a single drop of blood, Theranos sold a vision of painless, democratized health care while operating behind layers of secrecy. Th…

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REWIND: Felicia Rosario and Daniel Levin - Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence 1:03:57

3d ago1:03:57

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Survivor's of Larry Ray's sex cult Felicia and Daniel discuss how they came to meet Larry, how he leveraged his memory and connections to craft an image of authority, how Larry gained control of their lives under the guise of helping them, when the manipulation elevated into sexual abuse and violence, and how they're doing now that Larry is going t…

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The Vanishing Billions: Wirecard’s Phantom Cash 16:31

1d ago16:31

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The Vanishing Billions: Wirecard’s Phantom Cash is a hard-edged investigative narrative that reconstructs the collapse of Wirecard, once celebrated as Germany’s fintech champion. The story follows the moment auditors demand proof of billions in claimed Asian bank accounts and discover that the money cannot be confirmed, setting off a chain reaction…

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The Fake Heiress: Anna Sorokin 18:25

2d ago18:25

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The Fake Heiress: Anna Sorokin is a gritty, forensic true-crime narrative that examines how confidence, appearance, and access allowed a young woman to move through New York’s elite spaces without money, collateral, or verification. Told in a neutral, pressure-driven tone, the story follows the rise and collapse of Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna …

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Hidden Losses: Olympus and the Decades-Long Cover-Up 23:05

3d ago23:05

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Hidden Losses: Olympus and the Decades-Long Cover-Up follows the unraveling of a major corporate scandal inside a respected Japanese company when a newly appointed chief executive questions unexplained advisory fees tied to past acquisitions. What begins as a routine financial review turns into a confrontation with decades of institutional silence,…

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India’s Enron: The Satyam Computer Services Scandal 19:59

4d ago19:59

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India’s Enron: The Satyam Computer Services Scandal is a gritty investigative account of one of the largest corporate frauds in global business history. Told with journalistic precision and rising tension, the series traces how Satyam Computer Services presented itself as a pillar of India’s technology boom while hiding years of fabricated revenue …

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Repo one zero five: Lehman Brothers’ Disappearing Debt Trick 19:36

5d ago19:36

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Repo one zero five: Lehman Brothers’ Disappearing Debt Trick is a hard-edged investigative narrative that examines how Lehman Brothers used short-term repo transactions to temporarily remove tens of billions of dollars in liabilities from its balance sheet in the months leading up to the two thousand eight financial collapse. Told with journalistic…

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Faking the Books: HealthSouth’s Earnings Mirage 15:47

6d ago15:47

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Faking the Books: HealthSouth’s Earnings Mirage is a gritty investigative narrative that examines how relentless Wall Street pressure, executive expectations, and a culture of silence allowed a massive financial deception to grow inside HealthSouth. Told in a clear, journalistic voice, the series traces how routine accounting pressure hardened into…

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The CEO’s Birthday Bash: Tyco and the Executive Looting 19:14

6d ago19:14

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This three-chapter investigative narrative examines how executive power at a major American corporation crossed the line from aggressive compensation into criminal abuse. Using the infamous Tyco scandal as its core case, the story follows the unraveling of a system where corporate funds were treated as personal resources, oversight was circular, an…

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Numbers That Never Were: WorldCom 18:31

6d ago18:31

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Numbers That Never Were: WorldCom is a gritty investigative account of how one of America’s largest telecom companies turned ordinary accounting decisions into a machine for deception. Set against the pressure cooker of Wall Street expectations and the collapse of the telecom boom, the story follows how routine expenses were quietly reclassified, h…

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The Smartest Guys in the Room: Enron 17:20

6d ago17:20

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This three-chapter investigative narrative examines the rise and collapse of Enron, tracing how a celebrated corporate innovator used aggressive accounting, hidden partnerships, and market manipulation to project unstoppable success. Told with a gritty, pressure-driven tone, the story centers on how confidence replaced reality, how employees were e…

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The Community Whisperer: Affinity Fraud in Immigrant Networks 19:54

6d ago19:54

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The Community Whisperer: Affinity Fraud in Immigrant Networks is a hard-edged investigative narrative that examines how trust inside a close-knit immigrant community was deliberately exploited to carry out a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Through verified financial patterns, regulatory action, and community impact, the story exposes how cultural…

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Faith and Phantom Returns: New Era Philanthropy 16:15

6d ago16:15

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Faith and Phantom Returns: New Era Philanthropy is a gritty investigative narrative that examines how Christian charities and ministries were drawn into a modern Ponzi scheme disguised as faith aligned stewardship. Promised steady returns to fund God’s work, leaders entrusted donations to a system that quietly recycled money from new participants t…

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Crypto for the Chosen: American Bitcoin Academy 20:57

6d ago20:57

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Crypto for the Chosen: American Bitcoin Academy is an investigative account of a crypto education platform that leveraged trust, exclusivity, and the promise of artificial intelligence to funnel students into a hedge fund that never existed. What began as online training in digital assets quietly transformed into a closed-door investment pitch, whe…

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The Building Wealth Tour: Ephren Taylor’s Church Circuit 15:38

6d ago15:38

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The Building Wealth Tour: Ephren Taylor’s Church Circuit is an investigative, gritty examination of how faith, trust, and financial hope were exploited inside Black megachurches across the United States. Framed as a safe, Christian path to wealth, a charismatic young millionaire used pulpits and pastor endorsements to sell investments that promised…

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The Harvard Network Hustle: Vladimir Artamonov 21:26

6d ago21:26

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The Harvard Network Hustle: Vladimir Artamonov is an investigative, journalistic deep dive into how elite trust networks can be weaponized. Centered on a Harvard Business School graduate who marketed a supposedly low-risk investment strategy tied to insurance filings connected to Berkshire-linked companies, the story traces how credibility replaced…

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Double Your Blessings: Greater Ministries International 16:31

6d ago16:31

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Double Your Blessings: Greater Ministries International tells the true story of a Florida-based church program that promised believers God would double their money in seventeen months. Framed as a faith gift rather than an investment, the scheme spread rapidly through church networks nationwide, drawing in hundreds of millions of dollars. What bega…

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Theo Pratt - Blue Dresses, Smacking Ladies, and an Isolated Compound: Surviving Gloriavale 1:14:32

10d ago1:14:32

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This week’s guest is Theo Pratt, survivor of Gloriavale, an isolated Christian cult hidden deep in rural New Zealand, and author of Unveiled: A Story of Surviving Gloriavale. She’ll talk about being raised on the strictly controlled commune where people were assigned new names, women wore identical dresses and head coverings, and children weren’t t…

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Renee DiResta - Part 2: Pseudo-Events, More on Disinformation, and Telling Fact From Fiction 49:38

17d ago49:38

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Renee DiResta, professor and author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, joins the show again to dive deeper into disinformation, propaganda, and "pseudo-events," or manufactured controversies and news stories. She explains why it’s so difficult to tell fact from fiction online, how propagandists stoke real, often legitimate …

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The Harvard Network Hustle: Vladimir Artamonov 47:35

17d ago47:35

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The Harvard Network Hustle: Vladimir Artamonov tells the true story of a trusted Harvard Business School graduate who used the strength of an elite alumni network to build a quiet but costly investment scheme. Artamonov claimed he had identified a unique edge inside complex insurance filings tied to value oriented companies. He promised a calm and …

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The Underwater Escape: Matthew Piercey’s Lake Dive 32:33

18d ago32:33

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The Underwater Escape follows the true story of Matthew Piercey, a California investment promoter who spent years convincing clients that he had access to high yield technology funds. When federal agents moved in with warrants on November sixteen, twenty twenty, Piercey made a decision that turned a financial crime into a surreal chase. He fled his…

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In Crypto We Trust – BitConnect’s Vanishing Profits 13:49

18d ago13:49

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“In Crypto We Trust” follows the rise and collapse of BitConnect, one of the most infamous crypto lending platforms of the last decade. The story opens in the tense hours before the shutdown, when dashboards flicker and users sense trouble. It then rewinds to the early days when crowds cheered on promoters who promised steady daily interest through…

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The Crypto Queen: Ruja Ignatova and OneCoin 41:22

19d ago41:22

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This series follows the true rise and collapse of OneCoin, a global financial phenomenon built on staged confidence and controlled information. It begins with Ruja Ignatova commanding packed arenas with promises of a revolutionary cryptocurrency. Crowds believed they were joining the next digital frontier, unaware that investigators were already qu…

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Clicks, Bids, and Lies: The ZeekRewards Online Auction Scam 39:11

19d ago39:11

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Clicks, Bids, and Lies follows the rise and collapse of ZeekRewards, an online penny auction program that promised ordinary people a path to daily profit sharing. What looked like a fast-growing digital business was, behind the scenes, a fragile financial structure fueled almost entirely by incoming deposits from new participants. The story unfolds…

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The Scientology Insider: Reed Slatkin’s Investment Club 14:46

20d ago14:46

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This three-chapter forensic true-crime series examines the rise and collapse of Reed Slatkin’s private investment club, a scheme built inside a community where trust held uncommon power. The story follows investigators as they uncover irregular records, missing trades, and a pool of money that grew only through personal referrals. It shows how Slat…

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The Phantom Electronics Empire: Tom Petters 14:45

20d ago14:45

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The Phantom Electronics Empire: Tom Petters traces the rise and collapse of one of the largest financial frauds in Minnesota history. The story follows how a businessman claimed to run a fast moving electronics operation that supplied major retailers. Investors believed their money backed real truckloads of products because the paperwork looked sol…

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Next Level Lies: The Yield Investment Pitch 49:49

21d ago49:49

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Next Level Lies: The Yield Investment Pitch follows how a polished financial opportunity grew into a network of trust, referrals and confident promises that drew in more than three hundred investors. The series traces how Patrick Regan and his team presented the Next Level and Yield products as safe and structured, offering steady returns backed by…

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The Lawyer Who Sold Lies: Scott Rothstein 32:59

22d ago32:59

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This is a nonfiction forensic account of Scott Rothstein, a Florida attorney who used wealth, political access, and the appearance of success to sell fake settlement investments. The story follows the rise of his law firm, the pressure inside its walls, and the slow spread of doubt as staff and investors begin to notice missing documents, shifting …

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The Original Scam: Charles Ponzi and the Coupon Scheme 31:56

22d ago31:56

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This nonfiction forensic series follows the rise and collapse of Charles Ponzi’s scheme in Boston during nineteen twenty. It opens with the packed crowds outside 27 School Street as ordinary workers and immigrant families arrive believing they have found a rare chance to double their savings. The chapters move through Ponzi’s early struggles, his d…

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Renee DiResta - Part 1: Propaganda, Disinformation, and Bespoke Realities 52:19

24d ago52:19

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This week’s guest is Renee DiResta, professor, and author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality. In part one this week, she talks to Lola and Meagan about propaganda, disinformation vs. misinformation, and how social media algorithms push us all into highly individualized, “bespoke” realities. They discuss how she became intere…

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The Offshore Knight: Allen Stanford’s Fake CDs 42:26

1M ago42:26

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The Offshore Knight: Allen Stanford’s Fake CDs is a three-chapter nonfiction forensic investigation that traces the rise, deception, collapse, and global aftermath of one of the largest financial frauds in modern history. The series follows Allen Stanford, a Texas businessman who built an offshore banking empire in Antigua and convinced eighteen th…

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he King of All Ponzis: Bernie Madoff 35:31

1M ago35:31

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The King of All Ponzis: Bernie Madoff is a three-chapter nonfiction forensic series that breaks down the rise and destruction of the largest Ponzi scheme in modern financial history. Told in a clear, cinematic documentary style, the series follows the arc from Madoff’s carefully built reputation to the decades-long deception that devastated investo…

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The Shocking Interrogation Of Master Manipulator 7:57

1M ago7:57

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This episode peels back the layers of one of America’s most unsettling modern true-crime figures: Pamela Hupp. Known for her calm demeanor and calculated storytelling, Hupp’s life became surrounded by a series of mysterious and suspicious deaths — each one pulling her deeper into a web of lies, manipulation, and violent intent. We explore her conne…

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Master Manipulators | Deadly Women 8:00

1M ago8:00

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To the Master Manipulator is a chilling psychological true-crime portrait of two women who wield influence like a weapon. Outwardly calm, intelligent, and composed, they never touch blood, never commit the violence themselves — yet leave a trail of destruction through the men, children, and friends who fall under their spell. The story explores how…

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Mike & Abbi Prussack – Part 2: Predators in Power, Institutional Denial, and the Fight to Expose It 43:35

1M ago43:35

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This week, Lola and Meagan continue their conversation with Mike and Abbi Prussack, former members of Meagan’s childhood church, the 2x2s. In part 2, they walk the girls through the abuse crisis that has shaken the group in recent years and the long-standing patterns that allowed the harm to continue. Mike and Abbi explain how church leadership han…

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Mike & Abbi Prussack - Part 1: A Church with No Name, Isolated Childhoods, and Doomsday Fear 46:36

2M ago46:36

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This week, Lola and Meagan talk with Mike and Abbi Prussack, former members of Meagan’s childhood church, the 2x2s, also known as The Truth or The Way. The couple, who now help moderate the Ex-2x2 Facebook community, share what it was like growing up in a secretive religious group with no name, no building, and strict rules about who could be “in.”…

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Tim Squirrell - Incels, Redpill, and the Manosphere 1:11:14

2M ago1:11:14

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This week, researcher Tim Squirrel joins Lola & Meagan to break down the manosphere: incels, redpill, MGTOW, and the differences between some of the misogynistic subcultures in the online world of men. They discuss how isolation can leave boys vulnerable to harmful internet communities, and how the algorithm can radicalize young people looking for …

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Sarma Melngailis - Part 2: Isolation, Deeper into the Scam, & Getting Arrested 1:04:34

2M ago1:04:34

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In part 2, Sarma Melngailis, subject of the docuseries Bad Vegan and author of The Girl with the Duck Tattoo, tells Lola & Meagan how Mr. Fox consumed her time, overwhelmed her with information, and dangled promises of financial freedom that was always JUST around the corner as a way to get her to send him more and more money. She’ll share about th…

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Sarma Melngailis - Part 1: Bad Vegan, Meeting Mr. Fox, and Early Red Flags 1:01:58

2M ago1:01:58

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In part 1 with guest Sarma Melngailis, subject of the docuseries Bad Vegan and author of The Girl with the Duck Tattoo, Sarma shares about her life as the owner of a successful vegan restaurant in New York, how she met the man who called himself Mr. Fox on Twitter when he seemed to know her friend Alec Baldwin, her first impressions of Mr. Fox, and…

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Arabelle Sicardi - Plastic Surgery in Mormonism, Biohacking, and the Beauty Industry 1:06:25

2M ago1:06:25

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This week, the girls are joined by Arabelle Sicardi, writer, image theorist, and author of The House of Beauty: Lessons from the Image Industry. Lola and Meagan confess the cosmetic procedures they've each had, and Arabelle explores how the beauty industry preys on our deepest fears, giving us a false sense of control and training us to worship ide…

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