Flixtheatre

Digital Disconnect

"Fake News, Privacy and Democracy"

2018 65 min 10.0

Overview

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.

Details

Status: Released
Release Date: 2018-04-08
Production: Media Education Foundation