BBC Sounds - The Gatekeepers - Available Episodes

The founders of social media conquered the world... and they’re not finished yet.

A hand-bound book cooked up in the summer of love inspires the pioneers of social media.

A young tech CEO faces a dilemma. His solution will change the internet forever.

At the high point of technological optimism, the vision starts to disintegrate.

2016 is a big election year. But something is going very wrong online.

A change to an algorithm in 2016 has huge consequences.

Social media CEOs stand at a crossroads. Will they make their platforms safer?

A professor is murdered in Ethiopia. His son believes that Meta is partly responsible.

Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?

From WhatsApp leaks to group chat nightmares, how instant messaging changed the world.