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The Social Dilemma - not a documentry review!

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It was an interesting format for a documentry. It was not just a documentry, but a short story was within there too. It was powerful and highly relatable.  In this short story, there are three characters. All are teens of different age. The elder one does not like spending her time on her phone 24*7. She also despises overuse of it by her siblings.  His younger brother does like it very much. Actually, he has been being controlled by all automated alogrithms of social media. They shows us content in our feeds directly influenced by what happens in our real life.  They manage to do it, as they've got people to analyse his perosnal data, trying to not only dictate his attention, but to bring a real change in behaviour that makes him want to use more of their platforms. They show the selected posts that does interest him already, so he gets his believes reinforced by unconscious repitiation. He dramtically ends up in police arrest after joining a political protes...