Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast from Netflix.

I'm Ray Vada and I'm hosting this week's episode.

Here on You Can't Make This Up, we go behind the scenes of Netflix's original true crime stories with special guests.

This month, we're talking about the great hack.

Remember back in 2016, when Facebook got quote unquote hacked, well there's so much more to that story.

The great hack follows the rise and fall of Cambridge Analytica and how they use personal data

as a means to a political end.

Directors Jahan Nijam and Karim Amir

are known for their award-winning documentaries like The Square.

In this episode, they'll be interviewed by Aminatoussou,

journalist,

digital strategist, and co-host of the podcast,

Call Your Girlfriend.

Here is the Great Hack.

You both obviously didn't find out about the story in the news like some of us woke up to

One panicked morning. Can you tell me a little bit more about the timeline of events for you?

The timeline of the story for me personally starts way back in 2001 when I came out with

startup.com a film I made with D.A.Pena Baker and Chris Hedges. And this was sort of the dot-com boom and two people who were starting an internet company.

And at that point we could be God online, right? And we thought that we could start these internet companies that were going to make everything

speedier faster and everything work better.

Then fast forward to a film I made in 2004 called Control Room where it was about coverage

of the Iraq war and depending on the news

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