BBC Radio 4 - 'The Gatekeepers'
Canadian iTunes Chart Performance

"The Gatekeepers": Chart Statistics

  • Release date: 25 Feb 2024
  • Chart debut: #90 (22 Feb 2024)
  • Highest Position: #62 (25 Feb 2024)
  • Most recent chart position: #75 (02 Mar 2024)
  • Days on Canadian Podcasts Chart: 11

'The Gatekeepers' has charted in the following countries:
United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

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Canadian Podcasts chart performance history for The Gatekeepers

Year Month Day Position Movement Number 1
2024 Feb 22 Thu 90 no-move Joe Rogan
The Joe Rogan Experience
22 Thu 90 no-move
23 Fri 91 down
24 Sat 88 up
25 Sun 62 up
26 Mon 64 no-move
27 Tue 73 down
28 Wed 67 up
29 Thu 73 no-move
2024 Mar 1 Fri 69 up
2 Sat 75 no-move

About This Podcast: The Gatekeepers

jamie bartlett traces the story of how and why social media companies have become the new information gatekeepers and what the decisions they make mean for all of us it's 20 years since facebook launched and the social media we...

...today - but it 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 everything all the time; to overthrow the old gatekeepers and set information free but social media didn't turn out that way instead of setting information free - a new digital elite conquered the world and turned themselves into the most powerful people on the planet now they get to decide what billions of us see every day they can amplify you they can delete you their platforms can be used to coordinate social movements and insurrections a content moderator thousands of miles away can change your life what does this mean for democracy - and our shared reality it starts in the summer of love with a home-made book that taught the counter-culture how to build a new civilisation - and accidentally led to the creation of the first social media platform but a momentous decision in the mid-2000s would turn social media into giant advertising companies - with dramatic ramifications for everyone to understand how we arrived here jamie tracks down the author of a 1996 law which laid the groundwork for web 20; interviews the twitter employees responsible for banning donald trump who explain the reality of 'content moderation'; and speaks to facebook's most infamous whistle-blower in a dusty room in oxford he goes in search of people whose lives have been transformed by the decisions taken by these new gatekeepers a father whose daughter's death was caused by social media a nobel prize winning journalist from the philippines who decided to stand up to a dictator and the son of an ethiopian professor determined to avenge his father's murder far from being over jamie discovers that the battle over who controls the world's information has only just begun

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