How Online Platforms Shape Our Lives

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Sep 9, 2020

We're all spending more time online these days while social distancing. And as of late, social media platforms have become rife with controversies. But how is this increased screen time impacting our brains and life IRL? "The Social Dilemma" is an investigative documentary which seeks to uncover how the inventions of Silicon Valley are changing our lives and society, and to what aims. Director Jeff Orlowski joins us to discuss the film, out September 9 on Netflix.

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