The series, hosted by Bloomberg’s Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy, follows a group of young women battling AI-fueled fake porn

The six-episode limited series debuts March 21, listen to the official trailer HERE

NEW YORK – March 14, 2025 – Bloomberg News, Kaleidoscope, and iHeartPodcasts announced the launch of 'Levittown,' a new six-part podcast series investigating the rise of deepfake pornography online, debuting on March 21. Listen to the official audio trailer now, HERE.

'Levittown,' hosted by Bloomberg News reporters Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy, takes listeners to a New York suburb as dozens of young women discover that innocent pictures they shared with high-school classmates on social media have been manipulated into pornography and posted online.  After being told by police and others there's nothing much that can be done, they set out to catch whoever did this and unwittingly join forces with a global band of investigators and hackers to combat the AI-fueled rise of deepfakes.

Building on reporting for their Bloomberg Businessweek cover story, Carville and Murphy range from the suburbs of New York to New Zealand, hearing from victims of deepfake porn, investigators who are seeking a legal foothold to stop it, and the online vigilantes who have stepped in to try to shut down the websites.

The first episode will debut March 21 with subsequent episodes available on March 22, 23, 28, 29, and 30. The podcast will also be featured on Bloomberg’s flagship ‘Big Take Podcast,’ which takes listeners through the best business, finance and economic stories from across the Bloomberg newsroom. ‘Levittown’ is a co-production of Bloomberg News, Kaleidoscope and iHeartPodcasts.

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Show Description:

New Year’s Eve. Levittown, New York. Word travels swiftly as one young woman tells the next: “You’re on the website.” Dozens of recent high-school graduates are finding out that their photos have been scraped from their social media accounts, manipulated and posted to a porn website. Who would have done this? And can the women get the images taken down? Told there isn’t much the police or anyone else can do, they set out to catch whoever did this.  Along the way, they get some help from a global band of investigators and hackers who could take risks that police and prosecutors sometimes couldn't. “Levittown” is a real-life horror story for the AI generation. In this six-part series from Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeartPodcasts, reporters Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy take listeners from quiet suburbs of New York to as far as New Zealand and into the darkest corners of the Internet. Where tech moves faster than the law, and it’s up to everyday people to hold back a rising tide of explicit deepfakes.

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