Past Seasons
Season Three
Verified:
The Next Threat
The danger from racially motivated violent extremists is growing bigger every day. But what makes the threat even more dangerous, is that these groups are now finding each other across borders and oceans. “To those guys who recognized us as terrorists -- our ideas are what make us dangerous," said Stanislav Vorobyev of the Russian Imperial Movement, an ultranationalist, white supremacist group in Russia.
Verified: The Next Threat takes the listener on a journey from Russia, to Europe to the United States - to reveal how extremists are learning from each other and recruiting every day for their global fight for white power. We speak to the people at the center of this story - the global extremists, their collaborators in the United States, the government officials trying to counter these movements and people who have decided not to wait for officials to fight back. This show opens a window into a topic that many people want to avoid, a difficult topic but one that is real and spreading. “Racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists are metastasizing around the world,” warned Irfan Saeed, a top counterterrorism official at the State Department.
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Season Two
Verified: Dust Up
In the second season of “Verified,” Del Toro and the Verified team investigate whether a group of women developed ovarian cancer from dusting their bodies with Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder—an iconic brand associated with innocence and comfort since the 1800s. One woman's mysterious illness snowballs into thousands of court cases, claiming that baby powder is to blame for their cancer.
“Verified: Dust Up” is the story of a trusted brand’s fight to convince consumers and regulators that baby powder is safe while minimizing the work of the doctors and scientists who claim it is not. This season follows a decades-long journey to examine how a product so many of us have in our medicine cabinets could be putting us at risk.
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Season One
Verified
Imagine you are a young woman from Montana, or Portugal, or a single Mom from Australia with two daughters in tow heading on an exciting trip to Italy. Picture the romance of it all, the adventure. It’s all more affordable now due to the sharing economy and a website called Couchsurfing. It offers you free stays with local hosts all over the world. You have somewhere to stay in Padua near Venice. It’s free and it’s safe. Your host is super “verified” and the reviews you read are all great.
But those dreams turn into a nightmare when you are drugged and then raped by that host. Your world falls apart. But that’s not the end of the story.
This is the story of how a small group of resilient women from all over the world join virtual forces with a scrappy group of Italian investigative reporters to fight for justice. Together these women and reporters do what law enforcement around the world failed to do despite repeated complaints. They band together and after a seven year fight for justice they take their assailant to court for an unprecedented trial.
