The Great Hack documentary and Better Social Media

This week’s episode was inspired by a listener email curious about our perspective on the scandal portrayed in the Netflix documentary, The Great Hack. For those that haven’t yet seen the documentary, it chronicles the personal information sharing scandal between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica that broke in early 2018. The details of what happened and exactly how it was able to happen are more complex than we can cover here, but the key lesson from this revelation is that today more than ever before, it is important for us to develop and exercise critical thinking skills when reading and digesting the news.