Review of The Social Dilemma (2020) by Efectovogel — 19 Sep 2020

The first half of the documentary is interesting, although perhaps a bit slow, but interesting nonetheless, information about how you are the real product in the Social Media business program, and how social media may be a pretty serious cause for teenage (and pre-teenage) suicide rates increasing.

The first half is a 9/10. The second half talks about politics and its increasing polarization, and its when things get a bit messy. The documentary makes it seem like these problems are only caused by social media, and fails to explain that other factors that may even perhaps have more impact; like the socio-economical situation, and fails to make it clear that these problems existed and for the same reasons prior to social media (you wouldn’t read or buy a newspaper you don’t agree with).

Note that the documentary doesn’t say that these problems didn’t exist prior to social media,it only commits the error of not analysing all the causes (which is precisely what they are protesting about in the first place, so it’s a bit hipocritical).

Information and misinformation goes hand in hand, if more people has access to information, there will be more misinformation, it's a natural thing that we cannot solve quickly in a clean way (I’m not saying we shouldn’t do anything about it, though).

Overall, second half gets a 5/10.