The Great Hack

Released Jul 24, 2019

2h 15m

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The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

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Critics Consensus

The Great Hack offers an alarming glimpse of the way data is being weaponized for political gain -- and what it might mean for future elections.

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Koda _

Decided to watch this after the excellent 'The Social Dilemma', but was left overwhelmingly bored at times. Some interesting parts, but way too drawn out with very little keep any of our attention.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/11/23

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Jose Raul B

Nice documentary. It shows an accurate radiography of what happens inside the Big-Tech companies and the business with our data.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/19/23

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David F

A really interesting documentary about the way that social media and advertising were used in the 2016 presidential election. It doesn't completely get to the bottom of it (and I wish it had more detailed information about what exactly Cambridge Analytica was up to) but nevertheless a very informative documentary about the way we live now. I especially appreciated the emotionally revealing confessions of Brittany Kaiser, a social media executive who got her start working for Obama and ended up with the Trump campaign. The brief story she tells about her family getting swept out of their home by the global financial crisis and the disparate pay on offer from her from Democrats and Republicans says a lot and really gets to the heart of the matter both in her life, and in our politics.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/23/23

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Rajeev M

very boring not engaging

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/27/23

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phil w

Sad that important documentaries like this and "The Social Dilemma" don't get as many viewings as blockbusters, as these documentaries are showing how "free" social media sites are manipulating adults AND kids.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

So real, so intense and also a great warning to us now and to the future, this documentary illustrates very well our problem with data in the web world. It is didatic and urgent, everyone should see it to create critical thoughts and understands the importance of data rights as human rights too.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Karim Amer

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Jehane Noujaim

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Brittany Kaiser

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David Carroll

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Paul-Olivier Dehaye

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Carole Cadwalladr

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Scott Bryan

BBC.com

I think the problem about this documentary is that it makes so many different sweeping generalisations.

Jul 15, 2020

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

[A] provocative, buzzy documentary.

Feb 21, 2020

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Peter Rainer

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

This is a scary movie... [And] there's a lot of interesting characters.

Oct 2, 2019

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Brett Michael Dykes

Uproxx

We live in a world connected with most of our interactions happening online. It's great but, as this doc shows, it's also terrifying.

Dec 29, 2021

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Taylor Baker

Drink in the Movies

If you want me to save you roughly two hours, data rights are important and we need to talk about how to categorize them and hold large data companies accountable.

Rated: 45/100

Aug 19, 2021

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Candice McMillan

KOMO News (Seattle)

Great documentaries strike a cord that reverberates back into the world ... If the legal threat dangling over Netflix is any indication of its successful dissemination of truth, then perhaps we are in for a load of trouble.

Jan 28, 2021

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Synopsis

The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

Director: Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim
Producer: Nina Fialkow, Marni E.J. Grossman, Lyn Davis Lear
Screenwriter: Karim Amer, Pedro Kos, Erin Barnett
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Netflix, The Othrs, Noujaim Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 24, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 24, 2019
Runtime: 2h 15m

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