Thread by @tristanharris

One year ago, #TheSocialDilemma "went viral" with over 100M views.

Why? Because it confirmed how social media's design and business model nurtures addiction and warps our beliefs.

Yet the film was only available to Netflix subscribers— until now: bit.ly/3yXonUo

Today for a LIMITED TIME, #TheSocialDilemma is now available for free on YouTube til Sept 30th.

Now is the time to spread the message to anyone you know who didn't see it the first time around.

Please retweet & spread the word.

Watch it on YouTube here: bit.ly/3yXonUo

It's Back To School Season:

Are you worried about how social media affects mental health, social anxiety, depression and body image issues?

The film covers how social media affects young people, especially teen girls: bit.ly/3yXonUo

Are you a parent/educator concerned about how social media affects kids & mental health?

Now you can host a free screening of #TheSocialDilemma with your kids or classroom.

Use @HumaneTech_'s free "Youth Toolkit": humanetech.com/youth

Do you know people are constantly outraged by Masks/ Vaccines/Critical Race Theory?

Now is a great time to watch #TheSocialDilemma and host a conversation about how it divides us, makes politics more extreme & overwhelms our biases.

Social media deepens the fault lines of society:

Are you Pro-vaxx?
-> see overwhelming evidence of vaccines working & un-vaxxed people dying.

Are you Anti-vaxx?
-> see overwhelming evidence of "breakthrough" cases for vaccinated people, CDC/FDA corruption & safety issues.

Pro-mask? ->
See overwhelming evidence of how masks save lives & unmasked get covid.

Anti-mask? ->
See overwhelming evidence of how people got covid despite mask mandates and outrageous videos of government coercion.

bit.ly/3yXonUo

Know someone who's militantly partisan?

#TheSocialDilemma came out before January 6th's insurrection on US Capitol, but it foretold those events.

In the film, Tim Kendall (director of Monetization at Facebook) is asked what consequences worry him most?

He said, "Civil War":

Indeed, according to Tech Transparency Project [@TTP_updates] both before & after January 6th, Facebook allowed targeted ads for military gear and weapons to accounts of users who followed extremist content about the 2020 election and US civil war.

buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma…

Everyone who uses social media deserves to know how it works.

The reality is that billions — billions — of people spend hours every day on these very platforms, unaware of their widespread harms. bit.ly/3yXonUo

It's one thing when a film can affect 100 million people on Netflix who can afford $9/month.

But it's another thing when 2.3 BILLION people around the world can access it in hundreds of countries & native languages – FREE.

Please help us spread the word! bit.ly/3yXonUo

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