The crypto operation hijacking the BBC (from Top Comment)
Recommended listening from Top Comment, the BBC podcast that investigates what's blowing up online.In this clip from the latest episode Marianna Spring and Matt Shea look at the highly convincing fake...
27 Apr 9min
6. F For Fake
Jamie 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 of AI, who now wishes ...
15 Apr 28min
5. Doctor’s Orders
Jamie 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 talking to the BBC. Ja...
8 Apr 28min
4. The Lance Armstrong Defence
In 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 rating toxic debt as safe. ...
1 Apr 29min
3. My Truth, Your Truth, and Anything But the Truth
In 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 abolished the law that ...
25 Mars 29min
2. Kayfabe Country
In 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 shared illusion where every...
18 Mars 28min
Trailer
Have 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 - much of it delivered w...
4 Mars 2min
