THE SOCIAL DILEMMA - The Truth about Social Media!!!

⁣THE SOCIAL DILEMMA - The Truth about Social Media!!!


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The world has long recognized the positive applications of social
media, from its role in empowering protesters to speak out against
oppression during the Arab Spring uprisings almost a decade ago, to
serving an instrumental role in fighting for equity and justice today.
And in 2020, during an astonishing global pandemic, social media has
become our lifeline to stay in touch with loved ones, as well as proving
to be an asset for mobilizing civil rights protests. However, the
system that connects us also invisibly controls us. The collective lack
of understanding about how these platforms actually operate has led to
hidden and often harmful consequences to society—consequences that are
becoming more and more evident over time, and consequences that, the
subjects in The Social Dilemma suggest, are an existential threat to
humanity.

The Social Dilemma is a powerful exploration of the
disproportionate impact that a relatively small number of engineers in
Silicon Valley have over the way we think, act, and live our lives. The
film deftly tackles an underlying cause of our viral conspiracy
theories, teenage mental health issues, rampant misinformation and
political polarization, and makes these issues visceral, understandable,
and urgent. Through a unique combination of documentary investigation
and entertaining narrative drama, award-winning filmmakers Jeff Orlowski
(Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral) and Larissa Rhodes (Chasing Coral) have
once again exposed the invisible in a manner that is both enlightening
and harrowing as they disrupt the disrupters by unveiling the hidden
machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search
platforms.

The film features compelling interviews with
high-profile tech whistleblowers and innovation leaders including
Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology; the co-inventor of
the Facebook “Like” button, Justin Rosenstein; Tim Kendall, former
President of Pinterest and former Director of Monetization at Facebook;
Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction; Rashida Richardson,
Director of Policy at the AI Now Institute, and many others.
Demonstrating how social media affects consumers on a personal level,
these fascinating insider insights are seamlessly woven into a
captivating narrative, including Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), that
illuminates the very real consequences these seemingly innocent
technologies can have on our everyday lives.