Super Users

Jerry Nyman works for the School District of Palm Beach County and his job regularly involves using Google Maps to check bus routes. Whilst undertaking a routine search in 2019, Jerry thought he could see a car in one of the man made lakes within a residential community in Florida.

From Head of Antifa to the QAnon Shaman, Spencer Sunshine has been accused of being countless different figures by far-right groups in retaliation for his work as a journalist reporting on extremism.

Eliot Higgins has exposed a Russian assassination squad, solved the mystery of how the MH17 plane was shot down and become an enemy of the Russian State.

A vicious troll destroyed Guy Babcock’s reputation by writing hundreds of posts calling him a "pedophile, thief and scammer.”

“When I saw her, I was so shocked that I started crying. I couldn't even say a word. Never in my life did I think I would have a twin.” Indonesian teenager Nadya is a regular Tik Toker but she didn’t expect to meet someone who looked exactly like her online. This is a story of an uncanny connection made through social media.

Like tens of millions of people, in 2017 Peter McCormack decided to get involved in Bitcoin -- the digital cryptocurrency that allows for direct, transparent financial transactions without a central bank. Unlike most people, he became a millionaire. Riding the highs of cryptocurrency trading, Peter began living a life of luxury, convinced he had figured out the secret of easy wealth. But just as soon as he had become a Bitcoin millionaire, he lost it all again. Now, armed with expert knowledge from his Bitcoin podcast, he's investing smarter and still all in one HODLing Bitcoin to the moon.

We spoke to VFX artist Chris Ume about the time his scarily convincing deepfake of Tom Cruise went viral on TikTok culminating in around 100 million views.

John Wiseman is a planespotter. He spends his days tracking radio data from planes across the country, logging them and mapping their movements.

Nyan Cat’s creator Chris Torres made one of the internet’s best-known memes. Ten years later, he sold it for more than half a million dollars.

We speak with Laura Spaulding, the founder of a company that does crime scene, hoarding, meth-lab, and other complex cleanups.

Foeke Postma, an investigative journalist at Bellingcat, used fake Instagram accounts to follow people, reverse search images, geolocate pictures, and watch videos frame by frame to identify customers and exotic animal suppliers in Dubai.

Aubrey Cottle (AKA Kirtaner) is one of the key movers of one of the biggest hacking groups in the world, Anonymous.

We meet Caitlin Abrams, who has gone viral for cleaning old gravestones and sharing stories about the lives and deaths of the people who lie underneath them.

Meet TikTok’s Masked Vigilante, who has made it his mission to track down and expose online bullies, scammers and trolls. If you’re racist, sexist, or generally abusive he may have you in his sights.

35 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, parts of Chernobyl are still too radioactive for people to go to.

A.I. expert, Matthew Stamm, can identify deepfakes by 'dusting for digital fingerprints'. But it's a game of cat and mouse -- as soon as the 'good guys' figure out a way to identify a deepfake, the people making the fake content adapt.