The Social Dilemma | Official Trailer | Netflix

We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen.

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ABOUT THE SOCIAL DILEMMA

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.

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When you go to Google
and type, "climate change is,"

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you're going to see
different results

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depending on where you live

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and the things Google knows
about your interests.

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That's not by accident,
that's a design.

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What I want people to know

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is that everything
they're doing online

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is being watched,
is being tracked.

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Every single action you take

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is carefully monitored
and recorded.

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A lot of people think
Google's just a search box,

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Facebook's a place to see
what friends are doing.

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They don't realize

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there's entire teams
of engineers

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whose job is to use
your psychology against you.

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I was the co-inventor
of the Facebook like button.

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-I was president of Pinterest.
-Google.

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-Twitter.
-Instagram.

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There were
meaningful changes

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happening around the world
because of these platforms.

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I think we were naive
about the flip side of that coin.

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We get rewarded by hearts,
likes, thumbs up.

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And we conflate that
with value and with truth.

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A whole generation

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is more anxious,
more depressed.

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I always felt like fundamentally
it was a force for good.

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I don't know
if I feel that way anymore.

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Facebook discovered
that they were able to affect

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real-world behavior
and emotions

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without ever triggering
the users' awareness.

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They are completely clueless.

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Fake news spreads six times
faster than true news.

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We're being bombarded
with rumors.

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If everyone's entitled
to their own facts,

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there's no need for people
to come together.

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There's no need
for people to interact.

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We have less control
over who we are

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and what we really believe.

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If you want to control
the population of a country,

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there has never been a tool
as effective as Facebook.

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We built these things,

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and we have a responsibility
to change it.

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The intention could be,

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"How do we make
the world better?"

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If technology creates
mass chaos,

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loneliness, more polarization,
more election hacking,

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more inability to focus
on the real issues, we're toast.

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This is checkmate
on humanity.