Hello and welcome to Everything Else, the culture podcast from The Financial Times.

I'm Griselda and I'm in the studio with John.

This is the final episode in series one.

And we'll be asking, is fake news a real problem?

And I'm excited to say that one of the rising stars of Nigerian fiction, Ayabami Adebayo,

will tell us about her debut novel, Stay With Me, how it sheds light on love and childlessness,

and why this is an exciting time for African fiction.

We'll also call the FTE's editor Lionel Barber to find out how his lunch with the President

of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker went down.

Griselda, how much fake news are you reading at the moment?

I don't think I'm reading very much fake news, but I am told that a lot of people are reading a lot of fake news and that this is a problem. I do read a fair amount of fake news, but I'm totally aware of that because I'm thinking of websites like The Onion and, you know, kind of satirical news websites. Yeah, so there's different kinds of fake news. I mean, the onion is fake

news, but it's also, it's satire effectively. There's fake news that is genuine fake news. It's

stories that have been written by teenagers in Macedonia in order to make money by getting Trump

supporters to click on them with kind of enticing headlines about Hillary Clinton.

Broadly, there are three types of fake news stories.

One is kind of when something is intentionally deceptive where the truth is super contentious.

Another one is just kind of when jokes are taken at face value like The Onion or the Daily Mash.

And then the other one is just large-scale hoaxes.

One I really enjoyed actually in which the BBC and the Associated Press,

the Independent all reported on, was, did you see it,

the story of the billionaire founder of Corona the Beer,

who died last year?

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