Review of The Social Dilemma

Lots of good and eye opening messages in this documentary. The show explains how subtlety and "magic" is used by tech to get our attention and influence us, however at the same time there are subtle biases in play throughout the documentary. A few examples:

• early in the documentary they explain how if you enter in "climate change is" in Google, depending on where you are the search results will be different, however later 2 of the people being interviewed express very urgent climate change messages, including one who said it was an existential threat.
• They begin talking about government intervention to disrupt and overthrow democracies, using an example to Asia and slowing and subtlety use Russia as an example clearly implying while not explicitly stating the US was a victim of this same influence.
• The overwhelming majority of the news clips sprinkled throughout the documentary were from CNN. Would have been nice to see clips from other sources.
• There were lots of depictions of angry protests, specifically the anti-vaccine movement which I feel was an easy target. Also it depicts the 2 main dramatization actors accidentally walking into these protests and then wrongfully thrown on the ground by police, which I feel further feeds a "all protests are peaceful" and "anti-police" sentiment.
• Finally there was a lot of undertone of demonizing capitalism and profits as the enemy. Most of the people interviewed were "former" executives of "take your pick" social media company who say the solution to the problems is more tech but "humane" tech.

My suggestion is to watch the show with a grain of salt, lots of positives and messages to take away, but the whatever change you feel is needed from those messages and takeaways should be actions you make from your own personal choice and not this "Animal Farm" istic notion that only the tech before us is bad, but not the tech and regulation this new round of tech suggests.