The Cleaners (2018)
- Original title
- Im Schatten der Netzwelt
- Directed by
- Moritz Riesewieck, Hans Block
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 57 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows the lives of low-paid content moderators who decide what stays on social media. It shows the hidden human cost behind cleaning up the internet.
eye-openingsoberingdisturbingrevealingthought-provokingexploitative
What happens
The Cleaners is a 2018 documentary film directed by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck. The documentary details the work experience of content moderators who have to decide which content needs to be removed by employing a moderation system for social media websites. The film won seven awards and was nominated for nine more. The Cleaners shines a light on a corner of the internet that is meant to be hidden from the average user. The film contrasts the poverty of those who work in content moderation and those in the technology profiting off of their labor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Aggregate (2018)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.