Everything Is Fake

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.

Everything Is Fake

Episodes (9 available)

Everything Is Fake, Everything is Fake and Nobody Cares, Trailer

Is fake the new real? Jamie Bartlett investigates.

4 Mar 2026

2 mins

Everything Is Fake, The Gatekeepers, 7. Rest of World

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

18 Mar 2024

31 mins

Everything Is Fake, The Gatekeepers, 6. Arbiters of Truth

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

11 Mar 2024

31 mins

Everything Is Fake, The Gatekeepers, 5. The Vortex

A change to an algorithm in 2016 has huge consequences.

26 Feb 2024

29 mins

Everything Is Fake, The Gatekeepers, 4. Flood the Zone

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

26 Feb 2024

31 mins

Everything Is Fake, The Gatekeepers, 3. Are You Not Engaged?

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

19 Feb 2024

29 mins

Everything Is Fake, The Gatekeepers, 2. Blitzscaling

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

12 Feb 2024

29 mins

Everything Is Fake, The Gatekeepers, 1. We Are as Gods

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

5 Feb 2024

29 mins

Everything Is Fake, The Gatekeepers, Introducing The Gatekeepers

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

29 Jan 2024

3 mins