About this podcast
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.
Episodes
- 6. F For Fake · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 15Jamie and his AI companion Jimmy Botlett become increasingly difficult to tell apart as they bring you the final chapter of this story - featuring Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather…
- 5. Doctor’s Orders · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 14Jamie sits down with Dr Aseem Malhotra, the cardiologist who reaches millions through alternative media with his claims about Covid vaccines - and who is, he says, nervous about…
- 4. The Lance Armstrong Defence · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 13In the early 2000s, a young man in New Jersey was writing thousands of fake university essays for paying students. Around the same time, financial analysts in New York were…
- 3. My Truth, Your Truth, and Anything But the Truth · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 12In 1987, the same year Hulk Hogan body-slammed Andre the Giant, something else happened that would change America's relationship with the truth forever - a Washington regulator…
- 2. Kayfabe Country · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 11In episode two, Jamie ventures into the strange world of 1980s WWF wrestling - where performers and fans share an unspoken agreement to treat the whole spectacle as real. A…
- 1. Fake it. Make it. Podcast it. · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 10Jamie Bartlett is not Steven Bartlett. People mix them up more than you might think - but there is an important difference: Steven Bartlett is one of the most successful…
- Trailer · 2 min · Season 1 Episode 9Have you noticed that more and more of the world feels, well, fake? Online there's a daily avalanche of dubious advice and information - about health, money, success, happiness…
- 8. I Sung of Chaos · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 8On 30th September 2022 a coroner in London finds that Molly Russell "...died from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content."…
- 7. Rest of World · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 7Jamie Bartlett travels to Minnesota to meet Abrham Meareg Amare. The young academic is seeking asylum in the States following the murder of his father in Ethiopia in 2021. In…
- 6. Arbiters of Truth · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 6In 2018, the CEOs of our most popular social media companies are standing at a crossroad. After political outcry over Russian interference in the 2016 election and fallout from…
- 5. The Vortex · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 5One of the strange things about our new media universe, is how innocuous decisions taken in Silicon Valley - turning a dial, or adding a few lines of code to increase engagement…
- 4. Flood the Zone · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 42016 is a big election year. But something is going very wrong online. Journalists in America and the Philippines start to notice something strange going on online. In Manila…
- 3. Are You Not Engaged? · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 3The tech pioneers were right: all this connectivity and sharing is creating a new age of freedom and democracy. A global consciousness. Arab Spring, Barack Obama – both fuelled…
- 2. Blitzscaling · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 2From the rubble of the dot com crash, an ambitious young Harvard student with a passion for hacking and love of Roman emperors, sets up an exciting new website. Mark Zuckerberg’s…
- 1. We Are as Gods · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 1For years something strange has been happening online, but most of us have no idea what’s really going on. Ethnic conflict in Myanmar. A chemistry professor is killed in…
- Trailer · 3 min · Season 1It all started with a crazy idea to realise a hippie dream of building a “global consciousness”. The plan was to build a connected world, where everyone could access everyone and…
