Here’s the trailer for Netflix Original Documentary The Social Dilemma, a new feature coming online next month. The film focusses on the consequences of our growing dependence on social media. According to the official notes, the film sees Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilisation by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen. The film comes to the screen from Chasing Coral filmmaker Jeff Orlowski, which makes me even more interested in seeing it.
Here’s the synopsis.
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.
This one hits Netflix on 9th September. Here’s the trailer.
