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Jeremy Earp

Digital Disconnect

  • Documentary

Fake News, Privacy and Democracy

RELEASE

2018-04-08

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LENGTH

65 min

Description

In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, this essential film trains its sights on the relationship between the internet and democracy. Tracing the internet's history as a publicly funded government project in the 1960s to its full-scale commercialization today, the film traces how the revolutionary, democratizing potential of the internet has been radically compromised by the growing and unaccountable power of a handful of telecom and tech monopolies.