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Turns out, you can handle the truth. That’s why Fusion’s investigative team produces The Naked Truth: an immersive, explanatory journey into the world’s darkest corners.

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31st January 2016 - 22nd December 2017
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Death by Fentanyl
31st January 2016

Episode 1

A dangerous drug called fentanyl is turning the worst drug epidemic in U.S. history even deadlier. Fusion correspondent Mariana van Zeller tracks down the drug’s two sources: pharmaceutical companies and Mexican drug lords.

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Mugged
6th March 2016

Episode 2

An investigation into web pages, which publish online police photos and charge money to eliminate them, reveals who is behind these operations.

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Radicals Rising
27th March 2016

Episode 3

Correspondent Mariana van Zeller gets up close and personal with extremists on all sides, to see how otherwise open-minded people are finding purpose in hatred and how that hatred is infecting even mainstream politics.

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Dirty Little Secrets
17th April 2016

Episode 4

What do illegal arms traffickers, human traffickers, terrorists and some billionaires have in common? They all have to hide their money. Fusion uncovers the dark world of the owners of these secrets.

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District of Cannabis
22nd May 2016

Episode 5

Ryan Nerz circulates in the US capital to follow a man and his Cannabis crusade to the White House. There he discovers some of the weirdest laws about marijuana in the US, and who is really funding their legalization.

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ISIS Fighters
26th June 2016

Episode 6

Westerners are joining the fight against ISIS, “They just want to kill Daesh,” a former Marine says. As part of its latest Naked Truth documentary, Fusion’s Vytenis Didziulis travels to northern Syria to embed with the unpaid western volunteers signing up to fight the Islamic State.

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Shadow Town
28th August 2016

Episode 7

Fusion’s Investigative team, in collaboration with a group of young aspiring journalists, looks at Police Relations, Water Quality and Healthcare problems for the people living life in the shadows of California’s Central Valley.

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Rigged
25th September 2016

Episode 8

The arrangement exposes a toxic fermentation of partisan politics, voter repression and traps that make it almost impossible to have free and fair elections. Natasha del Toro investigates how democracy came to this and how we can repair it.

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Trumpland
16th October 2016

Episode 9

They’ve been mocked as “The Deplorables” but they’ve changed the face of presidential politicals in 2016. Fusion profiles the real people fueling the Trump candidacy.

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The Numbers Game
23rd November 2016

Episode 10

Fusion examines the inadequate and outdated collection of crime statistics and how this practice skews policing and public policy. We wrangled raw FBI data to develop key insights into policing in the U.S. Plus, how gaming the numbers can lead to further inequality, discrimination, and in some cases, neglect. Stats may not be sexy, but this data affects how we live our lives every single day, especially if you are black in America. This episode of The Naked Truth won the prestigious 2017 NABJ Al Neuharth Award for Innovation in Investigative Journalism.

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Frat Power
29th January 2017

Episode 11

Fusion spent nearly a year investigating college fraternities and their influence on and off campus. It turns out that one of the real paths to power may lie in whether you pledge a fraternity or not.

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Standing Rock
22nd December 2017

Episode 12

Protesters won a major victory over the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) project. Braving water cannons, dogs, police brutality, and extreme weather, #NoDAPL activists captured the world’s attention and convinced President Obama the pipeline needed to be rerouted away from sacred land. But as Donald Trump, who has said he supports the project, prepares to take office, many in the movement realize the struggle has just begun.

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