With the help of experts in network theory, Host Niall Ferguson untangles important issues including why social media networks polarize us, why some ideas go viral and why truth itself is at a disadvantage.

By looking at lessons from Cold War history, George Orwell's 1984 and other sources, host Niall Ferguson tells the story of how a not-for-profit worldwide web shifted to become a highly profitable network controlled by a tiny elite.

With lessons from the fight against terrorism in Iraq to the rise of an internet-powered surveillance state in China, host Niall Ferguson shows how our democracies are under threat from forces that exploit the social networks we invented.