Unfiltered

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Unfiltered episodes

  • ‘Youth sports is supposed to be innocent ... we need parents to stay outta the way.’
    Sports referee Brian Barlow has seen all kinds of youth game brawls – either in person or on video – and has had enough. He’s the man behind a growing Facebook page titled Offside, and his message is simple: If you have video of parents behaving badly at a youth sports event, he’ll pay you $100 for it. That video will then go on Offside – to the amusement, scathing ridicule, and dissatisfaction (or perhaps satisfaction) of his more than 31,000 followers.

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    38 min
  • ‘It was harder to come out as more right-wing than as trans’

    What sets this popular conservative YouTuber apart isn't only her right-wing beliefs or her attacks on liberal ideology, but her identity as a transgender individual. “If you mix being trans with having a few right-wing opinions … it’s a s*** show.”



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    27 min
  • ‘We ruin the lives of a******s, psychos, pervs, and trolls’
    An accomplished attorney who is currently representing one of the plaintiffs in the Harvey Weinstein case sits down with Yahoo News’ Unfiltered to talk revenge porn, sextortion and the dangers of social media.

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    40 min
  • ‘The left practices tolerance in the most superficial ways’
    After the 2016 election, some rank-and-file Democrats began to question the direction of the party. In this episode of Unfiltered, Brandon Straka explains what led him to create the #WalkAway campaign — an emerging political movement that encourages voters to consider conservative politics.

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    34 min
  • 'The activism that started Pride is being left behind.'
    In this week's Yahoo News' Unfiltered we learn about the LGBTQ activists that are fighting for better representation in Pride festivities. After corporate, political and police involvement have taken over large sections of the celebrations, organizations like Reclaim Pride want to remind us how and why PRIDE started 49 years ago.

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    13 min
  • ‘[Uber and Lyft] are buying their way into monopolization at the expense of everybody else.’
    In this week’s episode of Yahoo News’ Unfiltered, the head of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance explains how the working conditions created by ride sharing companies – like Uber and Lyft – have driven five yellow-taxicab drivers to commit suicide in the past five months.

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    12 min
  • ‘Prostitution is not going anywhere’
    In this week’s episode of Yahoo News’ Unfiltered, we get an inside look at the day-to-day business of a legal brothel in the only state where prostitution is not criminalized, through the eyes of a madam whose job it is to make sure a client is “with somebody who knows what they're doing — who knows, let's say, that there's five different ways to give a hand job, plus.”

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    28 min
  • ‘She was completely demonically possessed'
    In this week’s episode of Yahoo News’ Unfiltered, we take a look at one psychiatrist’s mission to provide his patients with the help they need – even if it’s an exorcism. By assigning what some may call a controversial diagnosis of demonic possession, Dr. Richard Gallagher confronts the oft-held notion that religion and science are like oil and water, stating that what is religious is not exactly anti-scientific and that society should accept “there may be something more here.

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    28 min
  • ‘Time is running out’

    In an age when artificial intelligence plays a dominant role in pop culture, some may view killer robots as science fiction, but for New School professor Peter Asaro, they’re the not-so-distant future.


    In this week’s episode of Yahoo News’ Unfiltered, we talk to Asaro and learn about the dangers of AI and autonomous weapons.


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    28 min

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Unfiltered is a new Yahoo News interview series documenting unflinching and unapologetic voices of everyday Americans. Citizen vs. immigrant, uber-wealthy vs. working poor, alt-right vs.…