Click Here (Radio Show)

It used to be that blowing the whistle meant taking a risk when you spoke up. Now, the risk may start much earlier: Opening a file. Searching for something. Taking a picture. So how do you expose wrongdoing when almost everything you do leaves a trail?

We’ve never had more evidence of what’s happening in the world — cameras, videos, satellite images, digital trails. Or better tools for figuring out what’s real. So why does it sometimes feel harder than ever to know what to believe? In this hour, we look at the race between truth and falsehood — and the surprising evidence that even after we’ve made up our minds, it may not be too late to change them.

Everybody has an idea for how to protect kids from the internet. Keep them off it. Make the companies fix it. Give parents more control. There is, of course, another possibility. Ask the kids. What happens when the people we’re trying to protect get a say?

What can a video game, a cyberattack and a massive bridge tell us about China? This week on Click Here, a different way of looking at the changing superpower race.

Iran has spent years trying to control who gets online — and what gets out. Then came the war. Propaganda videos made inside Iran reached millions of people around the world, while ordinary Iranians struggled to reach each other. So who gets a connection — and who gets cut off? Three stories about the internet as both a window to the world and a way to control what people see.

This hour: What happens when the people technology overlooks… discover possibilities no one else had seen before. A blind kid finds a secret world inside the telephone system. A documentary turns accessibility into art. And suddenly, everyone discovers something new.

What if nature isn’t silent — we just didn’t know how to listen? This hour, host Dina Temple-Raston explores AI trained to hear whale conversations.

Ukraine’s war has revealed something unexpected: some of the most important military innovations aren’t coming from giant defense companies. They’re coming from people who learned to move fast, experiment, and adapt online. This week, we look at how a generation raised on the internet is helping redefine what war sounds like, looks like, and who gets to shape it.

The internet was supposed to erase borders. Instead, it's becoming a place where governments redraw them. Around the world, leaders are deciding what people can see, what they can say, and even which version of reality they're allowed to inhabit. The technology that promised to connect us may be pulling us further apart.

The internet is very good at making one thing look like another. A job offer that sends someone to war. A marketplace run by police. A romance launched by a scammer. This hour: three stories about the moment trust gets engineered, manipulated, and weaponized online.