TED Talks

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5:16

Olga Yurkova

Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire

Posted Jun 2018 Rated Informative, Courageous

4:27

Yasin Kakande

What's missing in the global debate over refugees

Posted Apr 2018 Rated Courageous, Informative

9:18

Joan Blades and John Gable

Free yourself from your filter bubbles

Posted Dec 2017 Rated Inspiring, Informative

14:44

Gretchen Carlson

How we can end sexual harassment at work

Posted Nov 2017 Rated Courageous, Inspiring

7:34

Anjan Sundaram

Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre

Posted Oct 2017 Rated Courageous, Informative

17:58

Christiane Amanpour and Chris Anderson

How to seek truth in the era of fake news

Posted Oct 2017 Rated Informative, Inspiring

12:25

Helen Pearson

Lessons from the longest study on human development

Posted Oct 2017 Rated Informative, Inspiring

11:59

Euna Lee

What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea

Posted Sep 2017 Rated Inspiring, Courageous

7:56

Duarte Geraldino

What we're missing in the debate about immigration

Posted Sep 2017 Rated Inspiring, Informative

14:30

Jorge Ramos

Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power

Posted Jul 2017 Rated Courageous, Inspiring

12:39

Justin Davidson

Why glass towers are bad for city life — and what we need instead

Posted Jun 2017 Rated Informative, Persuasive

18:28

Serena Williams and Gayle King

On tennis, love and motherhood

Posted Apr 2017 Rated Inspiring, Beautiful

6:26

Stephanie Busari

How fake news does real harm

Posted Apr 2017 Rated Informative, Courageous

47:33

Gretchen Carlson, Vy Higginsen's Gospel Choir, David Brooks and Chris Anderson

Political common ground in a polarized United States

Posted Apr 2017 Rated Informative, Inspiring

11:45

Mona Chalabi

3 ways to spot a bad statistic

Posted Mar 2017 Rated Informative, Persuasive

8:37

Lara Setrakian

3 ways to fix a broken news industry

Posted Feb 2017 Rated Informative, Inspiring

12:46

Sisonke Msimang

If a story moves you, act on it

Posted Jan 2017 Rated Inspiring, Persuasive

14:09

Ione Wells

How we talk about sexual assault online

Posted Oct 2016 Rated Courageous, Inspiring

15:32

Courtney E. Martin

The new American Dream

Posted Sep 2016 Rated Inspiring, Beautiful

18:16

Jonathan Tepperman

The risky politics of progress

Posted Sep 2016 Rated Inspiring, Informative

13:08

Gerard Ryle

How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history

Posted Jul 2016 Rated Courageous, Informative

13:28

Sebastian Junger

Our lonely society makes it hard to come home from war

Posted May 2016 Rated Informative, Inspiring

12:25

Jennifer Kahn

Gene editing can now change an entire species — forever

Posted May 2016 Rated Informative, Fascinating

11:44

Alice Rawsthorn

Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers

Posted May 2016 Rated Informative, Fascinating

8:38

Ameera Harouda

Why I put myself in danger to tell the stories of Gaza

Posted Apr 2016 Rated Courageous, Inspiring

6:01

Joshua Prager

Wisdom from great writers on every year of life

Posted Apr 2016 Rated Inspiring, Beautiful

9:49

Mary Norris

The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen

Posted Apr 2016 Rated Funny, Informative

9:27

Nonny de la Peña

The future of news? Virtual reality

Posted Nov 2015 Rated Informative, Inspiring

14:55

Will Potter

The secret US prisons you've never heard of before

Posted Oct 2015 Rated Courageous, Informative

14:41

Anders Fjellberg

Two nameless bodies washed up on the beach. Here are their stories

Posted Oct 2015 Rated Informative, Courageous

21:38

Dave Isay

Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear

Posted Mar 2015 Rated Inspiring, Beautiful

13:35

Bruno Torturra

Got a smartphone? Start broadcasting

Posted Dec 2014 Rated Informative, Inspiring

20:37

Glenn Greenwald

Why privacy matters

Posted Oct 2014 Rated Informative, Persuasive

4:12

Eman Mohammed

The courage to tell a hidden story

Posted Sep 2014 Rated Courageous, Inspiring

4:33

Will Potter

The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest

Posted Jun 2014 Rated Informative, Courageous

5:00

Kitra Cahana

A glimpse of life on the road

Posted May 2014 Rated Informative, Inspiring

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