Symeon Brown – Cheltenham Literature Festival

Get Rich or Lie Trying: Authenticity and Influence in the Internet Age

Is our digital rat race costing us too much? In Get Rich or Lie Trying, Symeon Brown exposes the exploitative world of online hustlers and the stories behind the filtered selfies and gleaming smiles of aspiring influencers. Hanna Bervoets’ We Had to Remove This Post follows content moderator Kayleigh through the murky world of social media in an exploration of who or what determines our world view. Together with Emily Bootle, whose essay collection This Is Not Who I Am examines our obsession with authenticity, they ask: in the age of the internet, what is right? What is real? And who gets to decide?