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Manufacturing chaos / director, Justin Pemberton ; producers, Megan Jones, Justin Pemberton ; Irirangi Te Motu/NZ on Air ; TVNZ original ; Kindred Films, The Docufactory Ltd.

[San Francisco, Calif.] : Video Project, [2024]

1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

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Manufacturing Chaos offers a survey on the recent rise of disinformation from a global perspective, looking at how changes in the way we receive information and connect with one another have influenced such events as Brexit, COVID-19, the 2016 election, Qanon, "deepfakes" and artificial intelligence, and more. Once a site of what many considered to be utopic potential, the primacy of social media platforms on the internet has rapidly turned it into a ready vehicle for disinformation. The film examines how the convergence of rising inequality, our increasing reliance on the online world, combined with new tools for manipulation, has enabled the creation of parallel realities with dramatic social consequences. People living within the same community can now perceive the world in vastly different ways, depending on where they hang out online. The power to manipulate narratives and herd people toward falsehood raises the stakes so high that peace and cooperation are becoming increasingly fragile, the goal of disinformation. Manufacturing Chaos reveals how similar ideas, words, and memes are being employed to draw people towards white-nationalism across the world as algorithms are primed to push conflict in order to increase screen time. The disinformation specialists featured in the documentary offer a historical perspective on the rise of such movements, how the increasing privatization of the commons has led to a resurgence of far-right ideologies, and stress the need for a unified global response.

Disinformation.

Social media -- Psychological aspects.

Social media -- Political aspects.

Social media and society.

Online hate speech.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Pemberton, Justin, film director, film producer.

Jones, Megan, 1966- film producer.

Farrier, David, 1982- on-screen participant.

Hattotuwa, Sanjana, on-screen participant.

Hannah, Kate, on-screen participant.

Daalder, Marc, on-screen participant.

NZ On Air, production company.

Television New Zealand, production company.

Kindred Films (Firm), production company.

Docufactory Ltd., production company.

Also known as: Web of chaos

Title and credits from screen.

Originally broadcast as a television program in 2022.

Shown in New Zealand under the title Web of chaos.

Wide screen

Director of photography, Jacob Bryant ; editor, Val Richards ; music, Universal Production Music.

David Farrier, Sanjona Hattotuwa, Kate Hannah, Byron Clark, Marc Daalder, Andrew Cowie.

DVD-R; NTSC; all regions; wide screen; Dolby digital 2.0.

MCH-2047

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