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erronis

(21,583 posts)
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:07 PM Saturday

"Hacking Hate" - has anyone watched this wrenching documentary?

It is an exceptional tale of a Swedish journalist who dived deep into the right-organizations that are perhaps not as organic as they seem.

https://tribecafilm.com/films/hacking-hate-2024



My Vingren is a well-regarded and award-winning Swedish journalist. Deemed by the media as “the real life ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,’” she is known for her in-depth investigations, especially into white supremacist networks. However, her latest journalistic pursuit is about to bring her into considerably dangerous territory. With the use of a fake profile, Vingren dives deep undercover online as a white supremacist and begins to thread together the extreme right’s campaigns to recruit and influence individuals, radicalizing them into a discourse of hate speech and xenophobia. But her ambitious embedded approach comes at a price.

My’s meticulous investigation eventually leads her to Anika Collier Navaroli, the instrumental whistleblower at X (formerly Twitter) who initially kicked Donald Trump off of the platform, and to Imran Ahmed, a researcher who was sued by Elon Musk for exposing the hate speech culture on X. Together, My, Anika and Imran determine the ways that tech companies can be held accountable and how white supremacy and its violent tendencies can be disrupted forever.

Hacking Hate’s no-holds-barred approach soberingly uncovers the epidemic of hate that manifests itself online (as well as in plain sight) and starkly highlights the vulnerability of democracy.––Jose Rodriguez


I watched it on Kanopy via my local library.
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"Hacking Hate" - has anyone watched this wrenching documentary? (Original Post) erronis Saturday OP
I will look for it, thank you. markodochartaigh Saturday #1
I'm sure they'll give it the same seriousness FoxNewsSucks Saturday #2

markodochartaigh

(4,299 posts)
1. I will look for it, thank you.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:16 PM
Saturday

With the Murdochs, Ellisons, and other reich-wingers set to buy Tiktok I hope that the Democratic party is studying this closely.

FoxNewsSucks

(11,350 posts)
2. I'm sure they'll give it the same seriousness
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:26 PM
Saturday

they gave to cable news and radio.

Which is to basically cede both to the right.

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