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In the second part of our investigation into a ubiquitous online piano academy, we dig into why some people think it's a front to recruit students to the Church of Scientology and track down the man behind the piano himself.
He says he'll turn you into a virtuoso. Critics say he'll make you a Scientologist.
A box shows up on Amory Sivertson’s doorstep. Inside are the details of a murder.
Endless Thread's Amory Sivertson spent three years unraveling a cold-case murder. Her investigation starts here.
As Shakespeare once said...all the internet is a stage, and all keyboard warriors merely players. In this episode of Endless Thread, the members of the Nashville-based musical improv group Cherry Bomb stage an homage to their very active neighborhood Facebook group, and put some posts inspired by the Endless Thread subreddit to song.
Instead of a typical first-date conversation, he presented 29 slides about his favorite movie. The internet loved it. But did his date?
The point of Julian Shapiro-Barnum's Recess Therapy, a video series where he interviews kids about life's bigger questions, was never to make the kids social media superstars. But with one video in the summer of 2022, that's exactly what happened.
In 2022, a TikTok creator who identifies herself as "Kala" began digging. What followed was a viral series of TikToks chronicling the efforts of Kala, who the internet dubbed as "tunnel girl". Her almost half-million followers weighed in with support, suggestions and at times, concern. That is until a stop-work order halted the project in its tracks late last year.
The discovery of a secret tunnel attached to a Brooklyn synagogue earlier this month quickly went viral, fueling antisemitic conspiracy theories that long predate the internet. Endless Thread host Ben Brock Johnson and producer Grace Tatter dig into why a group of yeshiva students in Brooklyn actually got into extracurricular excavation.
New Hampshire officials are investigating political robocalls as deepfakes. But as manipulated media gets easier to make, could anyone become a target?