MOVIE · 2020

The Social Dilemma

DocumentaryDrama94 min

Former Silicon Valley insiders from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms lay out how social media is engineered to capture attention, shape behavior, and amplify misinformation. Tristan Harris, once a design ethicist at Google, is one of the documentary’s central voices, joined by figures like Jaron Lanier as the focus widens from product design to politics, polarization, and the effects of constant connection. Intercut with those interviews is a scripted thread about a family increasingly pulled around by their devices, with Skyler Gisondo in the dramatized storyline.