BBC Radio Podcasts from Everything Is Fake

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.

1. Fake it. Make it. Podcast it.

People mistake Jamie Bartlett for Steven Bartlett. Jamie wants to know why.

2. Kayfabe Country

Could wrestling really be the birthplace of modern fakery? Jamie Bartlett investigates.

3. My Truth, Your Truth, and Anything But the Truth

‘It’s not a lie if you believe it.’ Jamie Bartlett on how that became the new norm.