The Dark Reality of Online Exploitation: The NVE & 764 Epidemic: Our first story comes directly from an unsealed indictment out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee. A 30-year-old man, Zachary Sweeney, was recently indicted on multiple counts of child sexual exploitation. What makes this case deeply chilling is Sweeney’s connection to NVE (Nihilistic Violent Extremist) networks, specifically a group known as 764.

We are BACK, family! Welcome to a very special, incredibly messy, and completely unfiltered milestone: Episode 100 of the Behind the Filter Podcast: After Dark Edition! If you’ve been wondering why we completely disappeared off the face of the earth for the past month, trust us—we were just battling brutal reality. Both of us have been down with immune disorder flare-ups that snowballed into respiratory infections and full-blown laryngitis.

This week on Behind the Filter, we are welcoming back a very special guest: Indianapolis native, author, and keynote speaker Kat Perkins. Since our last conversation before her book launch, Kat’s journey has come full circle. Her memoir, Girls With Pearls Have Power, officially launched this past October on her birthday, and she is currently traveling the country on a powerful book tour.