Social media as a control mechanism -as deep as humanity itself (study)

Bumping this thread with Kate Winslett yt short I discovered today.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bQekIM78SGI

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Posted by Bill Ryan

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Posted by Sarah Rainsong

Any chance we can watch this somewhere besides Netflix.... cuz, you know, Cuties = #cancelNetfilx

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Here, in the Avalon Library: :thumbsup:

• http://avalonlibrary.net/The_Social_Dilemma_(2020).mp4 (838 Mb)

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For the first hour of watching this I was asking myself why Netflix produced this documentary because I see Netflix as very much part of 'the enemy'.

Then, at about one hour into it, they flipped the script and it suddenly made sense why Netflix produced it.

Quite a crafty ploy. They spent a whole hour drawing the viewer in with believable and probably true stuff about the psychology of social media. It had me convinced and so I assume most people convinced that it was a genuine truthy documentary. Then it went hard into dissing "conspiracy theories". As one would expect, they used the 'Flat Earth' thing to get started but they didn't hang around there for more than a few moments before they were off into dissing real conspiracy stuff.

Thanks Netflix. It was so logically predictable I'm slightly embarrassed that I took it seriously for a whole hour.