The Film
Discover what’s hiding on the other side of your screen
We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? This documentary-drama hybrid reveals how social media is reprogramming civilization with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
“Easily one of the most talked-about docs at Sundance this year”
— Variety
“it’s a call to arms that strives to provoke a real response from lawmakers, companies, and the public at large before it’s too late.”
— Venture Beat
“The Social Dilemma may finally convince you that we’re being watched, manipulated, and misled by unscrupulous platforms and attention-harvesting algorithms.”
–Vanity Fair
Meet the subjects
The Social Dilemma features the voices of technologists, researchers and activists working to align technology with the interests of humanity.
Tristan Harris
Former Google Design Ethicist; Co-Founder & President of The Center for Humane Technology
Jaron Lanier
Computer scientist and founding father of virtual reality
Shoshana Zuboff
Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School; Author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”
Jeff Seibert
Former Senior Director of Product at Twitter
Roger McNamee
Early Facebook investor; Author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe”
Aza Raskin
Former Head of User Experience at Mozilla; Inventor of the Infinite Scroll
Sandy Parakilas
Former Operations Manager at Facebook; Former Product Manager at Uber
Joe Toscano
Former Experience Design Consultant at Google; Author of “Automating Humanity”
Cynthia Wong
Former Senior Internet Researcher at Human Rights Watch
Tim Kendall
CEO of Moment; Former Director of Monetization at Facebook; Former President of Pinterest
Dr. Anna Lembke
Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine
Justin Rosenstein
Co-Founder of Asana and One Project; Former engineering lead at Facebook; Former product manager at Google
Cathy O’Neil
Data scientist; Author of “Weapons of Math Destruction”
Rashida Richardson
Rutgers Law School, Visiting Scholar; German Marshall Fund, Senior Fellow; A.I. Now Institute, Former Director of Policy Research
Randima (Randy) Fernando
Randima (Randy) Fernando, Co-Founder & Executive Director at The Center for Humane Technology
Guillaume Chaslot
Former software engineer at Google (YouTube); CEO at IntuitiveAI
Renée DiResta
Research Manager at Stanford Internet Observatory; Former Head of Policy at Data for Democracy
Alex Roetter
Former Senior VP of Engineering at Twitter
Bailey Richardson
Early Instagram employee; Partner at People & Company
Jonathan Haidt
Social psychologist at New York University; author of “The Righteous Mind”
Lynn Fox
Former Director of Corporate PR at Apple; Former Corporate Communications at Google
Meet the team
We are so thankful for the collaborative efforts of our extended cast and crew who brought The Social Dilemma to life and helped bring this pressing issue to the public.
