Levittown

Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeartPodcasts

New Year’s Eve. Levittown, New York. Word travels swiftly as one young woman tells the next: “You’re on the website.” Dozens of recent high-school graduates are finding out that their photos have been scraped from their social media accounts, manipulated and posted to a porn website.

Who would have done this? And can the women get the images taken down? Told there isn’t much the police or anyone else can do, they set out to catch whoever did this.

Along the way, they get some help from a global band of investigators and hackers who could take risks that police and prosecutors sometimes couldn't.

Levittown is a real-life horror story for the AI generation. In this six-part series from Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeart Podcasts, reporters Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy take listeners from quiet suburbs of New York to as far as New Zealand and into the darkest corners of the Internet. Where tech moves faster than the law, and it’s up to everyday people to hold back a rising tide of explicit deepfakes.

46 minutes 16 seconds
Chapter 3: One Little Bacon-Wrapped Sausage
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24 August 2026, 7:00 am
38 minutes 35 seconds
Chapter 2: This Dangerous Venture of Yours
Diana looks into the town’s newest arrivals: What’s their deal — and who are their friends?
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17 August 2026, 7:00 am
45 minutes 3 seconds
Chapter 1: Sometimes You Find Silver
Oh, the things you can find with an inquisitive mind – and a metal detector.
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10 August 2026, 4:00 am
1 minute 52 seconds
Introducing: Our Town
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5 August 2026, 4:00 am
35 minutes 9 seconds
6. Nothing Is Holy
“This is what happens with spies.”
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23 March 2026, 4:00 am
33 minutes 1 second
5. One Way In, One Way Out
The plan gets more complicated. Will Xu Yanjun walk away?
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9 March 2026, 4:00 am
33 minutes 40 seconds
4. The Duck Analogy
A new asset, a once-in-a-career chance and a very delicate operation.
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2 March 2026, 5:00 am
21 minutes 28 seconds
3. Suck, Squeeze, Burn, Blow
Stealing the world’s most closely guarded technology secrets is really hard. Especially when your boss keeps rejecting your expenses.
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20 February 2026, 4:45 pm
30 minutes 29 seconds
2. The Spy’s Diary
Intelligence officers shouldn’t keep their secrets backed up to the cloud: Xu Yanjun did.
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16 February 2026, 5:05 am
12 minutes 43 seconds
1. Your Friend From Nanjing
A spy, deep undercover, was sent to Chicago to deliver a warning. Or was he?
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16 February 2026, 5:00 am
1 minute 18 seconds
Introducing: The Sixth Bureau
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13 February 2026, 2:00 pm
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