Everything Is Fake 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 to download
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The crypto operation hijacking the 麻豆社 (from Top Comment)
Mon 27 Apr 2026
Recommended listening from the Top Comment podcast.
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6. F For Fake—Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
Wed 15 Apr 2026
Jamie and Jimmy explore where fakery goes next 鈥� but can you tell which is which?
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5. Doctor鈥檚 Orders—Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
Wed 8 Apr 2026
Who do you trust - the 麻豆社 or a cardiologist with millions of followers?
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4. The Lance Armstrong Defence—Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
Tue 17 Mar 2026
If everyone is faking it and getting away with it, why wouldn't you?
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3. My Truth, Your Truth, and Anything But the Truth—Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
Tue 17 Mar 2026
鈥業t鈥檚 not a lie if you believe it.鈥� Jamie Bartlett on how that became the new norm.
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2. Kayfabe Country—Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
Tue 17 Mar 2026
Could wrestling really be the birthplace of modern fakery? Jamie Bartlett investigates.
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1. Fake it. Make it. Podcast it.—Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
Wed 11 Mar 2026
People mistake Jamie Bartlett for Steven Bartlett. Jamie wants to know why.
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Trailer—Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Is fake the new real? Jamie Bartlett investigates.
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8. I Sung of Chaos—The Gatekeepers
Mon 18 Mar 2024
8/9 Is Silicon Valley鈥檚 radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
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7. Rest of World—The Gatekeepers
Mon 11 Mar 2024
7/9 A professor is murdered in Ethiopia. His son believes that Meta is partly responsible.
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6. Arbiters of Truth—The Gatekeepers
Mon 4 Mar 2024
6/9 Social media CEOs stand at a crossroads. Will they make their platforms safer?
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5. The Vortex—The Gatekeepers
Mon 26 Feb 2024
5/9 A change to an algorithm in 2016 has huge consequences.
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4. Flood the Zone—The Gatekeepers
Mon 19 Feb 2024
4/9 2016 is a big election year. But something is going very wrong online.
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3. Are You Not Engaged?—The Gatekeepers
Mon 12 Feb 2024
3/9 At the high point of technological optimism, the vision starts to disintegrate.
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2. Blitzscaling—The Gatekeepers
Mon 5 Feb 2024
2/9 A young tech CEO faces a dilemma. His solution will change the internet forever.
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1. We Are as Gods—The Gatekeepers
Mon 5 Feb 2024
1/9 A hand-bound book cooked up in the summer of love inspires the pioneers of social media.
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Trailer—The Gatekeepers
Mon 29 Jan 2024
1/9 The founders of social media conquered the world... and they鈥檙e not finished yet.
