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Selling lies / Iwerks & Co. & Revelations Entertainment presents ; a film by Leslie Iwerks ; produced, directed, and edited by Leslie Iwerks.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Facebook (Firm)--Influence.
- Facebook (Firm).
- Presidents--United States--Election--2016.
- Presidents.
- Social media--Political aspects--United States.
- Social media.
- Foreign interference in elections--Macedonia.
- Foreign interference in elections.
- Internet in political campaigns--United States.
- Internet in political campaigns.
- Disinformation--Political aspects--United States.
- Disinformation.
- International relations.
- Social media--Political aspects.
- United States--Foreign relations--Macedonia.
- United States.
- Macedonia--Foreign relations--United States.
- Macedonia.
- United States--Politics and government--2017-2021.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (31 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Pasadena, California] : [Distributed by] GOOD DOCS, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Closed captioning available.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- In 2016, an army of teenagers in Macedonia discovered a wildly lucrative game of posting false political clickbait news articles on Facebook for profit. By creating websites leading up to the presidential election that published sensationalized and misleading news stories about American politics, they generated a massive income and influenced the election. This film offers a rare glimpse inside the secret network behind these websites, including one notorious ringleader whose social media reach had vast implications on American readers, and explores how disinformation campaigns are continuing to strongly impact the U.S. today leading into the 2020 presidential election.
- Participant:
- Leslie Iwerks.
- Credits:
- Co-editor Doug Jacobson ; director of photography Suki Medencevic, ASC.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Iwerks & Co. & Revelations Entertainment, ©2018; previously released in 2019.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 15, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- gd-sl Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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