In the mid-1990s Stephen Glass was a rising star at The New Republic, placing sensational stories across top magazines, until much of his work was exposed as fabricated.

This episode covers how he fooled fact-checkers with fake notes and voicemails, his unraveling over the story Hack Heaven, and his later failed bid to become a licensed lawyer.

• Exploiting editors' trust and building elaborate fake evidence trails
• The fabricated hacker story Hack Heaven investigated by Forbes
• Charles Lane's drive to the Bethesda hotel that exposed the lie
• At least 27 of 41 New Republic articles found to contain fabrications
• The 2014 California Supreme Court denial of his law license