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Season 1 • Episode 5: The Teenager Who Hacked Twitter • Watch with subtitles
Episode 5: The Teenager Who Hacked Twitter
November 20, 2020 • 42 min
Elon Musk. Bill Gates. Kanye West. Joe Biden. Barack Obama. They and dozens of others were being hacked recently, and Twitter appeared powerless to stop it. Who had brought the tech giant to its knees? A 17-year-old kid in Tampa.
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