{"id":612033,"date":"2024-03-09T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-sobering-doc-on-disinformation\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T19:00:00","slug":"watch-a-sobering-doc-on-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-sobering-doc-on-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Sobering Doc on Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d8b11df2f1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d8b11df2f1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-sobering-doc-on-disinformation\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Sobering_Doc_on_Disinformation%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Sobering Doc on Disinformation&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-sobering-doc-on-disinformation\/#%E2%80%9CA_Sobering_Doc_on_Disinformation%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Sobering Doc on Disinformation&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Sobering_Doc_on_Disinformation%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Sobering Doc on Disinformation&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Sobering_Doc_on_Disinformation%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Sobering Doc on Disinformation&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A carefully constructed and often sobering documentary about disinformation, \u201cHow to Build a Truth Engine\u201d makes meticulous efforts to lay out its visual and thematic groundwork. However, its chilling portrait of the digital world comes up against a unique roadblock. A fleeting scene late in the film not only plays like a last-minute addition (concerning recent real-world events), but calls the movie\u2019s own perspective into question. That the film is so effective at building its arguments is both testament and fatal flaw. When its narrative gives in to the same impulses it critiques, the audience has, ironically, been trained to recognize this failing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Director Friedrich Moser builds a sense of allure as he introduces his ensemble of subjects, from neuroscientists to investigative journalists, whose fields of study seem completely disparate from one another at first. Moser, also the movie\u2019s cinematographer, imbues each sprawling establishing landscape shot and intimate office interior with the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance of a modern streaming procedural, bucking notions of visual realism in favor of high-contrast teals and immensely shallow focus. (That he superimposes some of these landscapes atop themselves, with a slight delay, makes the world itself feel unstable).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Melding real subjects with a dramatized visual approach grants de facto permission for mood, tone and atmosphere to become key drivers of Moser\u2019s cinematic experience, as opposed to charging out the gate with an academic mission statement. Initially, explanations of neurons, synapses and psychological processes feel logistically disconnected from the movie\u2019s focus on Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, as a team of reporters pores over satellite imagery, raw video footage and recovered recordings of phone calls in order to unearth potential war crimes covered up by the Russian government. The further the film goes on, however, the more its digital maps of neural pathways resemble other images that appear on the subjects\u2019 computer screens, like maps tracing the web-like movement of trending topics on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, until eventually, its other shoe drops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film\u2019s patchwork of experts all have similar concerns about the modern world, from insurrections in the United States to \u201cfake <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\u201d campaigns the world over, and Moser weaves their viewpoints into an unsettling, kaleidoscopic depiction of modern media narratives in the wake of COVID-19. Its seemingly scattered anecdotes about people\u2019s affinity for pattern recognition eventually lock like jigsaw pieces into a larger disconcerting portrait of political movements fueled by bigotry, as the film portrays not only the outcome and appearance of propaganda, but the emotional and psychological holes that it fills. It\u2019s deeply depressing to witness, as though laying out the process of indoctrination into extremist thought in such stark terms had made it nearly insurmountable \u2014 though the film is equally a call to action in this regard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    However, \u201cHow to Build a Truth Engine\u201d also makes an emotionally driven misstep that seems to fly in the face of its careful calculations. As various experts denote the way fascist regimes have historically dehumanized vulnerable groups, the film makes the curious decision to invoke \u2014 albeit briefly \u2014 last year\u2019s Oct. 7 attacks in Israel as a parallel to these atrocities, and it begins this brief detour by deploying an alleged phone call from a Hamas member relaying his actions to his parents. Where the movie\u2019s earlier instance of such a call (by a Russian soldier) is seen being scrutinized and analyzed by investigators in order to combat Russian military propaganda, this recording released by the Israeli military has never been independently verified by a similar team. Whether this lack of evidence slipped through the cracks or was outright ignored, the clip isn\u2019t held to the same standards as the other information presented on screen, and it serves as the linchpin for the movie\u2019s only subject matter that feels truncated and incomplete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cHow to Build a Truth Engine\u201d has been in the works for several years. The inclusion of this phone call (published on Oct. 24, 2023) plays like a late-in-the-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> addition, and appears to lack the diligent planning and detailing of the movie\u2019s other segments. In a reach for topicality, this attempt to draw historical antisemitic parallels feels rushed and lopsided at best. At worst, it represents an ethical failing on the part of an otherwise morally clear-eyed movie, given the way it fails to illuminate any further historical or contemporary context surrounding Israel and Palestine. Its use of this tidbit of unverified information is dispiritingly narrow, serving the very preordained outcomes the movie critiques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Any documentary is a work of perspective, but for one that so carefully argues the dangers of knee-jerk reactions to unverified media narratives \u2014 and the subsequent folding of these ideas into one\u2019s view of reality \u2014 the film inexplicably employs the very same tactics it decries, without the journalistic rigor it holds in such high regard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This two-minute segue isn\u2019t enough to sabotage \u201cHow to Build a Truth Engine,\u201d but it leaves a lingering bitterness that, ironically, illuminates its central point in chilling fashion. That a film so otherwise artistically accomplished, so meticulously detailed in its rejection of unfounded media narratives, can so quickly and easily fall prey to them in the heat of a visceral emotional response, is nothing if not illuminating about how none of us are immune.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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