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The Great Hack (2019)

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Directed by
Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
12
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 583 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film follows a professor, a former employee, and a journalist as they expose how a data firm influenced elections and political campaigns. It shows how personal data was used to target voters without their knowledge.

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What happens

The Great Hack is a 2019 documentary film about the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, produced and directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, both previous documentary Academy Award nominees for The Square. The film's music was composed by Emmy-nominated film composer Gil Talmi. The Great Hack premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in the Documentary Premieres section and was released by Netflix on July 24, 2019. The documentary focuses on David Carroll of Parsons and The New School, Brittany Kaiser (former business development director for Cambridge Analytica), and British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Their stories interweave to expose the work of Cambridge Analytica in the politics of various countries, including the United Kingdom's Brexit campaign and the 2016 United States elections. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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