CYBER

What Happens When an Anti-Sex Trafficking Operation Goes Wrong

When “Alison” started working for Operation Underground Railroad, she wanted to make a difference in the lives of kids. She was a former Marine and social worker who’d seen the devastating effects that abuse could have on people. She wanted to stop it before it happened. She ended up with a broken orbital bone, bleeding and vomiting in a gym after a training exercise gone wrong. This week on Cyber, Anna Merlan and Tim Marchman walk us through their latest reporting on Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad. Stories discussed in this episode <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ekzx/tim-ballard-sound-of-freedom-grooming-sexual-abuse-undercover-couples-ruse-operation-underground-railroad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Private Island, Downloads From God, and the 'Couples Ruse': Inside the Dangerous World of Tim Ballard's Operation Underground Railroad</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a378p/five-of-tim-ballards-alleged-victims-have-filed-a-lawsuit-against-him" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Five of Tim Ballard’s Alleged Victims Have Filed a Lawsuit Against Him</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zpbz/women-accuse-tim-ballard-of-spiritual-manipulation-grooming-and-sexual-misconduct" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Women Accuse Tim Ballard of ‘Spiritual Manipulation, Grooming, and Sexual Misconduct’</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3k3w/tiktok-bin-laden-palestine-moral-panic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Century-Old, Debunked Theory Is Fueling the TikTok Moral Panic</a> Cyber Live is coming to YouTube.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/Motherboardtv" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Subscribe here</a> to be notified. Subscribe to<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CYBER on Apple Podcasts</a> or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Matthew Gault talks every week to Motherboard reporters about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.