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The Cleaners (Im Schatten der Netzwelt)
Description
A deep look behind the secretive world of Internet. When we share something on the web we don't know if it's still there or no. The truth is that there are companies whose job is to remove things that they don't like, such as violence, pornography and political content. In this documentary movie we follows five from those people who work in this field.
A deep look behind the secretive world of Internet. When we share something on the web we don't know if it's still there or no. The truth is that there are companies whose job is to remove things that they don't like, such as violence, pornography and political content. In this documentary movie we follows five from those people who work in this field.
Actors:
Mark Zuckerberg,
Illma Gore,
Donald J. Trump,
Tristan Harris,
David Kaye
Mark Zuckerberg
14 May 1984, Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
Illma Gore
Donald J. Trump
14 June 1946, New York City, New York, USA
Tristan Harris
David Kaye
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Moritz Riesewieck ,
Hans Block
Moritz Riesewieck
1985 in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Hans Block
1985 in Berlin, Germany
Country:
United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Austria, Denmark
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Equal parts fascinating and frightening.
November 09, 2018
The documentary deftly highlights the apparent hypocrisy that governs much of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram's content-moderation policies.
October 19, 2018
Though The Cleaners, which is filmed in an ominous, noirish style, suffers from some unnecessary padding, it's a revealing and timely documentary.
November 04, 2018
The line between responsible oversight and outright censorship on the internet is explored in great detail in this absorbing German documentary...A terrific documentary, timely and more than a little frightening.
June 22, 2018
[A] brisk, disquieting doc...
February 06, 2018
The Cleaners prevails most by shining a light on those whose existence has all but been erased by a flawed system, all so that everyone else can still be heard on social media.
October 31, 2018
Asking more questions than it answers and playing out like a thriller, The Cleaners takes us into a dark and disquieting world of social media policing.
October 13, 2018
Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck reveal a hidden view of the withering, worrying power of behemoth social media platforms with this documentary about the online clean-up crews who endlessly decide between deleting or ignoring disputed content.
January 21, 2018
Smart, stylish doc exposes must-discuss issues regarding the companies who dominate the internet.
October 17, 2018
The Cleaners is a riveting piece of work, prompting reflection on a whole range of big, urgent questions.
January 25, 2018
The sinister tone it sets early on, with anonymous employees hiding behind monitors, flattens out into petrified despair.

