'The Social Dilemma' on Netflix takes aim at Facebook, Google, Twitter and other purveyors of social media and search engines
Jeff Orlowski’s “The Social Dilemma” may be the most important documentary you see this year. An indictment of the tech industry, the film succinctly lays out the damage being done by companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter through their social media platforms and search engines, the how and why of what they are doing and most vitally, what needs to be done to stop it. ItFilm Festival in January and has been updated since with references to the coronavirus.
The movie opens with a quote from Sophocles: “Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.” And the veterans of Silicon Valley weigh in with tales of good intentions from the early days of social media even as they paint a bleak picture of the current situation. As former Google and Facebook engineer
Orlowski and his team, which includes producer Larissa Rhodes, writer/editor Davis Coombe, writer Vickie Curtis and composer Mark Crawford, use animation, graphics and dramatization to augment the interviews. The vignettes, featuring a family of five negotiating the turbulent digital world, seem superfluous but are elevated by a good cast including Vincent Kartheiser,Skyler Gisondo in the documentary “The Social Dilemma.
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