BBC Radio Podcasts from Everything Is Fake

Introducing The Gatekeepers

The founders of social media conquered the world... and they’re not finished yet.

1. We Are as Gods

A hand-bound book cooked up in the summer of love inspires the pioneers of social media.

2. Blitzscaling

A young tech CEO faces a dilemma. His solution will change the internet forever.

3. Are You Not Engaged?

At the high point of technological optimism, the vision starts to disintegrate.

4. Flood the Zone

2016 is a big election year. But something is going very wrong online.

5. The Vortex

A change to an algorithm in 2016 has huge consequences.

6. Arbiters of Truth

Social media CEOs stand at a crossroads. Will they make their platforms safer?

7. Rest of World

A professor is murdered in Ethiopia. His son believes that Meta is partly responsible.

8. I Sung of Chaos

Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?

Trailer

Is fake the new real? Jamie Bartlett investigates.