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As the new school year begins, Netflix is making the documentary The Social Dilemma available for free on YouTube, through the end of September. After just a couple of days, it’s recorded over 59,000 views, with one viewer commenting, “Literally one of the best and worthy documentaries I have ever watched in my life.”

Jeff Orlowski, director of the award-winning Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, used to be an avid social media user. Not anymore.

Of all the responses to his film The Social Dilemma, director Jeff Orlowski treasures one reaction above many.

Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski has become known for his environmental documentaries Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral. But with The Social Dilemma he turns his attention to another issue with major implications for humanity: the damaging impact of social media.

Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, which explores the dangers of social media.Released last month, the Jeff Orlowski film takes a look at the dark side of social media through interviews with tech experts, and it has since sparked many discussions online.However, Facebook has criticised the documentary, accusing it of burying “the substance in sensationalism.”“We should have conversations about the impact of social media on our lives,” the company wrote in a blog post.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook has a bone to pick with “The Social Dilemma,” the recently released documentary on Netflix — actually, several bones.The social-media giant released a seven-point rebuttal Friday to the Netflix film, from director Jeff Orlowski, which debuted Sept. 9.“We should have conversations about the impact of social media on our lives.

There’s an oft-quoted saying about tech companies: If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product. That idea is brought into stark reality in the new Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, in which director Jeff Orlowski weaves together deft interviews with some of the very people who designed the networks and platforms that govern so much of the everyday life of billions of people around the globe today.

Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma is making people terrified of social media.The new film from Jeff Orlowski, exploring the dangers of social networking through interviews with tech experts, has sparked an uproar on Twitter.“Watched The Social Dilemma last night,” one user on Twitter began. “Made me want to punt my phone out the window! Conclusion I reached.

In a world filled with people looking for the latest hot take, it’s not actually shocking to say that social media is a great tool that has turned into one of the most terrible inventions of the modern era. A technology that could be used to unite people from all walks of life and all countries around the globe has deteriorated into a fake news machine with people constantly arguing.

Many a personal device will be at least temporarily darkened by “The Social Dilemma” — though whether it’s already too late to stem, mid-course, the societal disaster the film charts is just one of many questions it raises. This potent documentary by Jeff Orlowski lends a podium to various experts who are certain the pervasive influence of under-regulated social media is destroying civilization from within.

So relevant and of-the-moment it's practically already in the future, The Social Dilemma, the latest feature from ace documentarian Jeff Orlowski (who made early climate change consciousness-raisers Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral), basically nails explaining the question you've always wanted an answer to but were afraid to ask: What's so bad about social media?Miraculously, it manages to unpack this perplexing issue with precision and intelligence but without any moral panic-mongering,