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Everything Is Fake

Jamie Bartlett asks why, in so many parts of modern life, fakery is no longer punished - it's rewarded. And why so many of us seem strangely unbothered by it.

Radio 4,9 episodes

Episodes

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The Gatekeepers
Introducing The Gatekeepers
The founders of social media conquered the world... and they’re not finished yet.
29 Jan 2024,3 mins
The Gatekeepers
1. We Are as Gods
A hand-bound book cooked up in the summer of love inspires the pioneers of social media.
05 Feb 2024,29 mins,
The Gatekeepers
2. Blitzscaling
A young tech CEO faces a dilemma. His solution will change the internet forever.
05 Feb 2024,29 mins
The Gatekeepers
3. Are You Not Engaged?
At the high point of technological optimism, the vision starts to disintegrate.
12 Feb 2024,29 mins
The Gatekeepers
4. Flood the Zone
2016 is a big election year. But something is going very wrong online.
19 Feb 2024,31 mins
The Gatekeepers
5. The Vortex
A change to an algorithm in 2016 has huge consequences.
26 Feb 2024,29 mins,
The Gatekeepers
6. Arbiters of Truth
Social media CEOs stand at a crossroads. Will they make their platforms safer?
04 Mar 2024,31 mins
The Gatekeepers
7. Rest of World
A professor is murdered in Ethiopia. His son believes that Meta is partly responsible.
11 Mar 2024,30 mins
The Gatekeepers
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,32 mins