What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica
This brings up a broader subject (not specific to this particular documentary): it's getting where I just don't like watching documentaries anymore because a lot of them are wrong.<p>The experience I want is to enjoy spending some time watching an interesting documentary and walk away with my mind enriched with some new facts and analysis. Instead, a lot of the time, it's interesting, but I walk away believing something that isn't true because whoever made the documentary was too lazy to fact-check, was unconsciously biased, or was even intentionally leaving out part of the story because they have an agenda.<p>Not all documentaries are this way, of course. Some are accurate and objective. The problem is I can't easily tell before watching. As a workaround, I can do a bunch of my own research after watching, but that's a bit of a pain, and maybe I'm better off just skipping the documentary and going straight to the research.<p>Unfortunately, for a documentary to succeed commercially as entertainment, it's not necessary for the audience to actually learn. They just have to <i>feel like</i> they learned something.