
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
2020

Representation Score
Excellent
2020
Director
Charles Kriel, Katharina Gellein Viken
Runtime
92 minutes
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People You May Know is a sophisticated investigative documentary that prioritizes systemic critique over individual character studies. It excels at deconstructing how religious and political institutions intersect to manipulate vulnerable populations. The film's strength lies in its examination of institutional corruption and the ways political entities leverage socio-economic and religious fractures. It provides a high-level view of how power dynamics shift under the influence of disinformation. However, the documentary lacks explicit representation of specific identities. While it addresses the vulnerabilities of underrepresented groups, it often treats them as subjects of exploitation rather than providing them with central narrative ability to act.
Category Breakdown
The film focuses on geopolitical disinformation rather than LGBTQ+ storylines. There are no explicit depictions of LGBTQ+ characters or intimate relationships.
The narrative challenges patriarchal political structures by positioning an advisor against elite, male-dominated organizations. It highlights how systemic manipulation affects demographics often underrepresented by traditional masculine leadership.
The documentary examines how microtargeting exploits socio-economic vulnerabilities. It addresses how racial and ethnic disparities are leveraged by far-right radicalization during a journey across the American social fabric.
The film provides a deep critique of Western religious-political hegemony. It explores the tension between secular democratic processes and the imposition of religious law through institutional critique.
The film touches on mental health by portraying the exploitation of the grieving and the addicted. These individuals are shown as subjects of systemic manipulation rather than having full ability to act.
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Official Synopsis
People You May Know follows Charles Kriel, specialist advisor to UK Parliament on disinformation, when he discovers Cambridge Analytica collaborating with a software company creating a microtargeting platform for US churches, targeting vulnerable people - the poor, the grieving, the addicted - to radicalise them for far-right politics. With US 2020 elections coming, Kriel gathers a team of whistleblowers and journalists, and journeys across America with his young family, where he discovers a powerful organisation with ties to the heart of the White House. The man who commissioned CA is a member of the most powerful secret political organisation in the United States, with an agenda to rewrite the Constitution according to Christian law. Going undercover, he risks everything to gain access where no outsider has ever set foot.

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