Ride-hailing company Grab Philippines offers a convenient but expensive alternative to navigating Metro Manila traffic. How many of us have tried to book a Grab car and just accepted steep fares? How much do we know about these so-called surge fees, and how much are they driven by opaque algorithms?

Listen to this episode produced by Karol Ilagan with reporting partner Federico Acosta Rainis, and in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network.

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