Welcome to you Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast for Netflix original true crime stories.

I'm Rebecca Lervoy, your host. Each episode we take a close up look at a true crime documentary or series, and I talk to the people who made them,

digging deep into the backstories and getting answers to questions raised by what we just watched.

On the show this week, the social dilemma.

The documentary drama explores the dangerous impacts of social networking.

We tweet, we like, and we share, but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media?

In the film, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how the wealthiest and most formidable tech companies

are reprogramming civilization. I'll be talking with Jeff Orlowski, the film's director.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, our guest was recorded in his home and not in a studio and of course we appreciate your understanding.

When you go to Google and type in climate change is,

you're going to see different results depending on where you live

and the particular things that Google knows about your interests.

That's not by accident.

That's a design technique. What I want people to know is that everything they're doing online is being watched, is being tracked.

Every single action you take is carefully monitored and recorded.

A lot of people think Google's just a search box

and Facebook's just a place to see what my friends are doing.

What they don't realize is there's entire teams of engineers

whose job is to use your psychology against you.

I was the co-inventor of the Facebook Like Button.

I was the president of Pinterest.

Google, Twitter, Instagram.

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