#209 Jehane Noujaim: On Her Netflix Exposé of the Cambridge Analytica Scandal

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emma gannon

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🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week's guest is Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, who alongside her husband Karim Amer, directed the new Netflix documentary THE GREAT HACK which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It's out now, and the Guardian has already given it five stars.

The documentary uncovers the dark world of data exploitation online. It follows the personal stories of some key players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal. Carole Cadwalladr from the Guardian who has spend years investigating, Brittany Kaiser who went from interning on the Barack Obama campaign to working on the Cambridge Analytica Trump campaign. It's informative, entertaining with some pretty scary revelations. Even if you know a bit about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it's fascinating to see the people behind it, and their individual motivations.

Data has surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable asset. People and companies everywhere are in a battle for control of our most intimate personal details. THE GREAT HACK forces us to question the origin of the information we consume daily. What do we give up when we click the yes box on the T&Cs on social media apps? It is available to watch now on Netflix, I recommend a viewing.

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0:58.3	Welcome back to Control-Or Delete the podcast where I interview interesting creative people about the
1:03.7	internet their careers and everything in between. This week's guest is
1:08.0	with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jehan Nijame who alongside alongside her husband, Kareem Ammer, directed the new Netflix documentary The Great Hack.
1:17.7	The documentary premiered this year at Sundance Film Festival, and the documentary uncovers the dark world of data exploitation online.
1:26.4	It follows the personal stories of some key players behind the Cambridge Analytica
1:31.2	and Facebook scandal and we see all different sides of what
1:35.4	happened what went down what got uncovered during that scandal there's Carol from
1:40.7	the Guardian who has spent years investigating and being
1:43.7	trolled online for the things that she has uncovered about Cambridge Analytica.
1:48.3	There's Brittany Kaiser who is a very interesting character who went from interning on the Barack Obama campaign to working for the Trump-Cambridge Analytica contract.
1:59.3	It's informative, it's entertaining, it's pretty scary in many places and the revelations that come to light really do blow your mind
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