The Social Dilemma
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Description
The Social Dilemma by Jeff Orlowski brings former tech insiders, designers, and critics into a blunt reckoning with the attention economy built behind social media and search. Notifications, recommendation systems, and endless engagement loops are treated not as harmless conveniences but as tools engineered to shape behavior at scale. The strongest moments land when manipulation stops feeling abstract and starts looking familiar: kids zoning out, families drifting apart, and the public square warping under systems built to keep people glued to screens, fired up, and hooked.
Director / Filmmaker
Jeff Orlowski-Yang
About the Director / Filmmaker
Jeff Orlowski-Yang, director, producer, and founder of Exposure Labs, makes impact-driven nonfiction around climate, technology, and other public-interest subjects. His official biography places his practice across directing, producing, cinematography, executive producing, and mentoring, with work that ranges from Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral to The Social Dilemma. Across that body of work, he pairs visual evidence with issue-led storytelling built to extend beyond release into public action.
Jeff Orlowski-Yang, director, producer, and founder of Exposure Labs, makes impact-driven nonfiction around climate, technology, and other public-interest subjects. His official biography places his practice across directing, producing, cinematography, executive producing, and mentoring, with work that ranges from Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral to The Social Dilemma. Across that body of work, he pairs visual evidence with issue-led storytelling built to extend beyond release into public action.
Topic
Mental Health, Parenting, Continuous Development
Who It’s Best For
Viewers who question why platforms increasingly shape attention, mood, and even beliefs will get the most from this. It also fits parents, educators, and designers who are weighing the human cost of engagement-driven technology.
Production Company / Studio
Exposure Labs, Argent Pictures, The Space Program
Approach
By fusing whistleblower interviews with scripted dramatization, the film translates abstract platform mechanics into a cause-and-effect narrative about behavioral manipulation. Its rhetoric is alarm-driven and prosecutorial, using insider testimony to argue that social media systems are engineered against the public.
Duration
94 Minutes
Year
2020
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