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The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeepers
BBC Radio 4

Jamie Bartlett traces the story of how and why social media companies have become the new information gatekeepers, and what the decisions... more

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Episodes

8. I Sung of Chaos

On 30th September 2022 a coroner in London finds that Molly Russell "...died from an act of self-harm while... more

25 Mar 2024 · 32 minutes
7. Rest of World

Jamie Bartlett travels to Minnesota to meet Abrham Meareg Amare. The young academic is seeking asylum in the States following... more

18 Mar 2024 · 30 minutes
6. Arbiters of Truth

In 2018, the CEOs of our most popular social media companies are standing at a crossroad. After political outcry over... more

11 Mar 2024 · 31 minutes
5. The Vortex

One of the strange things about our new media universe, is how innocuous decisions taken in Silicon Valley - turning... more

04 Mar 2024 · 29 minutes
4. Flood the Zone

2016 is a big election year. But something is going very wrong online. Journalists in America and the Philippines start... more

26 Feb 2024 · 31 minutes
3. Are You Not Engaged?

The tech pioneers were right: all this connectivity and sharing is creating a new age of freedom and democracy. A... more

19 Feb 2024 · 28 minutes
2. Blitzscaling

From the rubble of the dot com crash, an ambitious young Harvard student with a passion for hacking and love... more

12 Feb 2024 · 29 minutes
1. We Are as Gods

For years something strange has been happening online, but most of us have no idea what’s really going on. Ethnic... more

05 Feb 2024 · 29 minutes
Introducing The Gatekeepers

It all started with a crazy idea to realise a hippie dream of building a “global consciousness”. The plan was... more

29 Jan 2024 · 3 minutes
The Gatekeepers
8. I Sung of Chaos
The Gatekeepers