24. October 2025 19:00
The Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft Rhein-Neckar e.V. invites you to a talk entitled A History of Fake News with Chris Stokel-Walker
Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance English journalist, specialising in technology. He regularly contributes to the BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, WIRED, Economist, Guardian, New Scientist and Newsweek, and appears on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera, Times Radio and other TV channels and radio stations.
Chris is author of YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars (2019, Canbury Press), and TikTok Boom: China’s Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media (2021, Canbury Press) – the first popular book on TikTok. He wrote The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks (2023, Michael O’Mara Books), and is the author of How AI Ate The World (2024) and Fake News: A Pocket Primer (2025).
Following his successful talk to us last year on artificial intelligence, we welcome back Chris Stokel-Walker. This time Chris will take us through his latest book “Fake News – A Pocket Primer” (Hoxton Mini Press, June 2025). This has been described by critics as „A pithy, vibrant and accessible explainer to the past, present and future of fake news, from Ancient Greece to Donald Trump and beyond.
Admission is free to members; non-members are requested to make a donation of EUR 5 towards expenses (“Unkostenbeitrag”).
Out of consideration to the speaker and audience, please do not eat during the talk but either before or afterwards. Please come in good time to order and get your drinks before the talk starts.
24. October 2025 19:00
Venue
"Zum Achter“ (Ruderklub)
Neuenheimer Landstr. 3A
Heidelberg
The Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft Rhein-Neckar e.V. invites you to a talk entitled A History of Fake News with Chris Stokel-Walker
Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance English journalist, specialising in technology. He regularly contributes to the BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, WIRED, Economist, Guardian, New Scientist and Newsweek, and appears on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera, Times Radio and other TV channels and radio stations.
Chris is author of YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars (2019, Canbury Press), and TikTok Boom: China’s Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media (2021, Canbury Press) – the first popular book on TikTok. He wrote The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks (2023, Michael O’Mara Books), and is the author of How AI Ate The World (2024) and Fake News: A Pocket Primer (2025).
Following his successful talk to us last year on artificial intelligence, we welcome back Chris Stokel-Walker. This time Chris will take us through his latest book “Fake News – A Pocket Primer” (Hoxton Mini Press, June 2025). This has been described by critics as „A pithy, vibrant and accessible explainer to the past, present and future of fake news, from Ancient Greece to Donald Trump and beyond.
Admission is free to members; non-members are requested to make a donation of EUR 5 towards expenses (“Unkostenbeitrag”).
Out of consideration to the speaker and audience, please do not eat during the talk but either before or afterwards. Please come in good time to order and get your drinks before the talk starts.