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Ranking in Netflix’s “Top 10” list, The Social Dilemma focuses on various ways social media and tech companies have manipulated human psychology to rewire the way we think and act in society. While the documentary’s main focus lies on what’s wrong in the tech industry and how it acts as a marketplace that trades in human futures, we also have to look at what’s right in the tech industry.

What is The Social Dilemma?

The Social Dilemma is a Netflix documentary, released in September 2020 that caused a stir on the use and impact of social media on its users. Ranking in Netflix’s “Top 10” list, the documentary focuses on various ways tech companies have manipulated human psychology to rewire the way we think and act in society through social media

Consisting of a series of interviews with Silicon Valley engineers who all played a role in designing these technologies, such as Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter, along with various other tech and psychology experts, viewers are given an eye-opener into a world that many may not understand.

While the documentary’s main focus lies on what’s wrong in the tech industry and how it acts as a marketplace that trades in human futures, we also have to look at what’s right in the tech industry.

Created by a technology boom, the digital age has resulted in rapid growth in communications, global markets and economic activity, changing the way we interact and communicate with people.

However, according to the Facebook rebuttal, rather than offering viewers a more nuanced look at technology, the documentary instead gives a more distorted view on how social media platforms work to create difficult and complex societal problems, burying the substance in sensationalism.

While the documentary’s main focus lies on what’s wrong in the tech industry and how it acts as a marketplace that trades in human futures, we also have to look at what’s right in the tech industry.

On the bright side

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What does this mean for your business ?

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