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26/01/2020 Documentary, Drama 1h 34m
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The technology that connects us also controls us.

Overview

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

  1. Jeff Orlowski

    Director, Writer

  2. Davis Coombe

    Writer

  3. Vickie Curtis

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Tristan Harris

    Self

  2. Jeff Seibert

    Self

  3. Bailey Richardson

    Self

  4. Joe Toscano

    Self

  5. Sandy Parakilas

    Self

  6. Guillaume Chaslot

    Self

  7. Lynn Fox

    Self

  8. Aza Raskin

    Self

  9. Alex Roetter

    Self

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Reviews

A review by corrcorr
Written by corrcorr on 2021-01-07
This documentary thinks it's real cute. You may learn a thing or two, but a lot of the time it feels manipulative and self-righteous.

I wish that, instead of portraying the mechanisms of ad-targeting as some kind of sci-fi super villain, they would have shown what truly goes on in the offices of google, facebook, and the like. The evils of manipulating human attention do not need to be sensationalized to look like something out of Tron or Blade Runner. Why not film the actual computer screens that are spitting back data about users of these platforms? Perhaps internet giants would not let ...read the rest
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