'The Social Dilemma' fans say "Need to do so much more" after Facebook reply goes viral

The Social Dilemma is a documentary that explains to the viewers how social media has affected our lives. It was released on Netflix and had been in the top trending lists of the OTT platform. The documentary had directly accused various social media networks of deliberately making their apps addictive. Thus, the biggest social media platform, Facebook has released a reply for The Social Dilemma makers. Read more to know what Facebook had to say about the documentary released on Netflix.

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Facebook's reply to The Social Dilemma

Facebook has released an official reply for the makers of The Social Dilemma. They have listed down seven core points the documentary gets wrong. Seeing this, it is certain that a number of people did understand where the makers of The Social Dilemma were coming from. Even a number of Tweets about the documentary had surfaced on Twitter. Here is what Facebook had to say:

We should have conversations about the impact of social media on our lives. But ‘The Social Dilemma’ buries the substance in sensationalism. Rather than offer a nuanced look at technology, it gives a distorted view of how social media platforms work to create a convenient scapegoat for what are difficult and complex societal problems. The film’s creators do not include insights from those currently working at the companies or any experts that take a different view to the narrative put forward by the film. They also don’t acknowledge—critically or otherwise—the efforts already taken by companies to address many of the issues they raise. Instead, they rely on commentary from those who haven’t been on the inside for many years. 

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A number of users have been reacting to Facebook’s reply to Netflix’s The Social Dilemma. A social media consultant, Matt Navarra had shared the seven core points that Facebook thinks the film covered incorrectly. Matt shared the pictures and captioned it with, “ Wow...Facebook has published this official response to Netflix’s ‘The Social Dilemma’ documentary”. Makers have also been sharing a number of posts from the film’s Twitter handle. They even started an impact campaign. They shared a tweet explaining the aim of this campaign which said, “You can get involved w/our impact campaign @ http://thesocialdilemma.com where we'll focus on elevating the voices of those harmed by exploitative technology & supporting the work of the activists, orgs, & scholars who have been, & continue to, advance the humane tech movement”. A number of netizens have reacted to this post and even joined the campaign. 

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