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WGBX 44 44.1 16 44 14 804 21 n/a This month, WGBH examines these two major issues facing our society with unflinching focus and the in-depth reporting that is the hallmark of our WGBX 44 HD 44.1 801 544 n/a n/a n/a n/a public media documentary work. World 2.2 956 473 94 807 181 n/a In The Facebook Dilemma, Frontline investigates a series of warnings to Create 44.3 959 474 95 805 182 n/a Facebook as the company grew from a dorm room project to a global empire. WGBH Kids 44.4 958 472 93 n/a 180 n/a With insider accounts, Frontline tells the story of how decisions made by the Boston Kids & n/a 22 n/a 3 n/a n/a n/a company as it sought increased profit and new users transformed Facebook Family (Boston only) into a media company with vast surveillance capabilities and a role in social Channel numbers and availability may vary by community. Contact your provider for movements and elections around the world. more information. While the revelations about Facebook only recently exploded in the news, Comcast subscribers can access selected WGBH programs on WGBH On Demand. WGBH’s Frontline team has been digging into this story for the past year. “At Go to Comcast 1, choose Get Local, then Local Networks. For more programs, go to Frontline we believe serious times demand serious journalism,” says Frontline Comcast 1 and choose History & Nature, then PBS-WGBH. Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath. “Our investigation gets at the truth behind the headlines, tracing the safety and privacy problems that have accompanied Facebook’s evolution into a company with unprecedented power.” Radio Then in Addiction, Nova addresses the stark 89.7 WGBH, Boston’s Local NPR® reality that drug addiction is the biggest public wgbhnews.org health crisis facing us today, driven by a dramatic 89.7 HD1 rise in the abuse of opioids like OxyContin, heroin, wgbh.org/jazz and fentanyl. 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