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    Inside Brazil as it becomes the new global epicenter of coronavirus (Part 1)

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  • Inside Brazil as it becomes the new global epicenter of coronavirus (Part 2)

    06:30
  • Black Americans explore African roots in Ghana (Part 1)

    07:43
  • Black Americans explore African roots in Ghana (Part 2)

    06:27
  • Bryan Stevenson: Nationwide unrest is about a history of racial inequality (Part 1)

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  • Bryan Stevenson: Nationwide unrest is about a history of racial inequality (Part 2)

    03:34
  • How to talk with kids about racial inequality in America (Part 1)

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  • How to talk with kids about racial inequality in America (Part 2)

    02:06
  • Meet the Yankees’ first female minor league hitting coach (Part 1)

    02:16
  • Meet the Yankees’ first female minor league hitting coach (Part 2)

    02:05
  • How this company’s database of 3 billion faces could be used for contact tracing (Part 1)

    03:35
  • How this company’s database of 3 billion faces could be used for contact tracing (Part 2)

    02:44
  • Conviction integrity units working to exonerate the wrongfully convicted (Part 1)

    02:00
  • Conviction integrity units working to exonerate the wrongfully convicted (Part 2)

    02:07
  • Capturing History: Chief Official White House Photographers (Part 1)

    03:34
  • Capturing History: Chief Official White House Photographers (Part 2)

    02:45
  • Theaters, bars and restaurants debate how to keep customers safe from coronavirus spread (Part 1)

    02:20
  • Theaters, bars and restaurants debate how to keep customers safe from coronavirus spread (Part 2)

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  • From The Archives: The Nixon Impeachment Trials (Part 1)

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  • From The Archives: The Nixon Impeachment Trials (Part 2)

    02:58

Privacy and Power: The Illusion of choice (Part 3)

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Once data collection companies have compiled a detailed profile of who you are, they can effectively use that information to serve you targeted ads of things you’ll most likely want to buy. That same information, when in the wrong hands, can be used for covert manipulation of your choices. In the third installment of “Privacy and Power,” we look at how Russian hackers used Cambridge Analytica data to influence U.S. voters in the 2016 election, and the larger implications of what researchers have coined ‘personalized choice architecture.’