Super Users

After fake vaccines sprung up online during the COVID-19 pandemic, a professional ‘scambaiter’, set about uncovering them. We met him as he trolls and exposes the scammers using an old lady persona and voice distortion software.

The largest TikTok cult now has over two million followers who have pledged allegiance to its leader the "Mother Hen". We met Melissa Ong, 27, who explains how she created the Step Chickens, fought battles against other cults and continues to grow her following.

When Todd Matthews first tried to work out the identity of ‘Tent Girl’, an unknown woman who’d been found dead wrapped in a canvas sheet, it seemed impossible. Then the internet came along.

Robert Sell leads teams of hackers in competitions to find missing people. His Project, Trace Labs, selects missing people cases and then awards hackers points for finding information and any digital footprints to help crack the case.

The US Army’s use of killer drones has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Brandon Bryant, a gamer, flew those drones. He tells us what life was like within the drone programme and why he decided to become a whistleblower.