Our weekly documentary film, curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE.
Explore the shadow industry of “content moderators,” hired by Silicon Valley leaders to control what we see online. “Delete…Ignore…Delete… Ignore…” Someone is out there censoring your social media feed. Do their decisions distort your understanding of the world as much as clever hoaxes and “fake news”? They’re hired by Silicon Valley leaders like Facebook and Google to do “digital cleaning,” content moderators who are paid to sift through and remove what they deem as inappropriate content on the internet, thereby influencing what people around the world see and think. Told in the sinister style of a neon, cyberpunk thriller, The Cleaners charts social media’s evolution from a shared vision of a global village to a dangerous web of fake news, extremism and radicalization. Watch:
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Run time: 1 hr 26 mins
Written and directed by: Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck
Production: Christian Beetz
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