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KCRW KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading NPR affiliate.

KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading NPR affiliate, featuring an eclectic mix of music, news and arts programming. Broadcasting from Santa Monica, CA at 89.9 FM and online at KCRW.com, the station boasts one of the nation's largest arrays of locally-produced and nationally-distributed content, including Morning Becomes Eclectic, Left, Right & Center, Bookworm, Unfictional and Good Food.

Journalist Julia Mengolini criticized her country’s president — and was met with a pornographic AI deepfake meant to sha...
11/14/2025

Journalist Julia Mengolini criticized her country’s president — and was met with a pornographic AI deepfake meant to shame and silence her.

What started as trolling by online extremists quickly escalated into a smear campaign amplified by senior officials and the president himself.

Hear the full story of how a deepfake upended her life, and what it reveals about power, politics, and the future of online abuse, on the new Question Everything.

Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts (link in bio).


KCRW, Vidiots, and Netflix invite you to a members-first advance screening of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. RS...
11/12/2025

KCRW, Vidiots, and Netflix invite you to a members-first advance screening of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. RSVP HERE: https://kcrw.visitlink.me/6cqOSm

📅 Tue, Nov 18
⏰ 7:30 PM�
📍 Vidiots

She thought she was helping her country.Instead, the truth cost her everything.Reality Winner tells her story — in her o...
11/07/2025

She thought she was helping her country.
Instead, the truth cost her everything.

Reality Winner tells her story — in her own words — to on this week’s Question Everything.

Listen now on the KCRW app or wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio.

11/02/2025

A little spooky, a lot of fun. 👻 Big thanks to everyone who joined our KCRW Family Day Halloween celebration with Spookysburg!

Who’s really controlling the mediaTech billionaires. Algorithms. And the laws that shield them.On the new Question Ever...
10/31/2025

Who’s really controlling the media
Tech billionaires. Algorithms. And the laws that shield them.

On the new Question Everything, sits down with (founder of ) to unpack the new playbook for media power.

🎧 Listen now on the KCRW app or wherever you get your podcasts — link bio.

Join us for a celebration of film, music, and you at our first Member Night with Searchlight Pictures. We’ll kick off ...
10/28/2025

Join us for a celebration of film, music, and you at our first Member Night with Searchlight Pictures. We’ll kick off the evening with a pre-party featuring a variety of curated food truck options available for purchase, plus a hosted bar, and a live set from KCRW DJ Novena Carmel.

Then, be among the first to see Rental Family, the buzzworthy new film directed by Hikari (the Emmy®-winning filmmaker behind Netflix’s Beef) and starring Brendan Fraser. To finish off the night, we’ll be joined by director, writer, and producer Hikari in a conversation moderated by Novena Carmel.

Become a member or renew your membership to get the invite: https://kcrw.visitlink.me/IA0bFF

Politics… but make it a music quiz.From Kamala Harris to RFK Jr., politicians are chasing clout, and some of the biggest...
10/24/2025

Politics… but make it a music quiz.

From Kamala Harris to RFK Jr., politicians are chasing clout, and some of the biggest TikTok stars are turning them down.

This week on Question Everything, sits down with , , , and to ask:
What happens when creators have the power — and politicians are just trying to game the algorithm?

🎧 New episode out now.
Listen wherever you get podcasts — link in bio.

A monument of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was taken down in the aftermath of the 2017 “Unite the Right” ra...
10/24/2025

A monument of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was taken down in the aftermath of the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Curator Hamza Walker convinced artist Kara Walker to transform it into a new work of art, now on display in Los Angeles.

Hear the full piece from Press Play at https://www.kcrw.com/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/stories/toppled-confederate-statues-transformed-reimagined-as-art-in-monuments?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=kcrw-fb-post&utm_campaign=&utm_content=

Need to get up to speed on the Dodgers ahead of tonight's World Series opener? outlined the absolute need-to-know 🖊️
10/24/2025

Need to get up to speed on the Dodgers ahead of tonight's World Series opener? outlined the absolute need-to-know 🖊️

Conspiracy theories ruin lives. There is an idea that could stop this. Reforming Section 230 would compel social media ...
10/16/2025

Conspiracy theories ruin lives. There is an idea that could stop this.

Reforming Section 230 would compel social media companies to play by the same legal rules every other media company has to play by, when it comes to pushing lies. Section 230 currently shields internet companies from being sued for defamation.

Getting rid of these so-called “26 words that created the internet” in its current form would make it much harder for lies to thrive online and for internet companies to profit from boosting them.

Learn more about the case for changing Section 230, and how we could all benefit from it, here ➡️ play.cdnstream1.com/s/kcrw/question-everything/i-believed-sandy-hook-wa-787827

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