The Social Dilemma En Subtitles

At 00:00:15,849, Character said: [eerie instrumental music playing]

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At 00:00:31,114, Character said: [interviewer] Why don't you go ahead?
Sit down and see if you can get comfy.

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At 00:00:37,579, Character said: -You good? All right.
-Yeah. [exhales]

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At 00:00:39,914, Character said: -[interviewer] Um...
-[cell phone vibrates]

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At 00:00:43,043, Character said: [crew member] Take one, marker.

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At 00:00:46,796, Character said: [interviewer] Wanna start
by introducing yourself?

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At 00:00:48,882, Character said: [crew member coughs]

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At 00:00:50,467, Character said: Hello, world. Bailey. Take three.

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At 00:00:53,970, Character said: -[interviewer] You good?
-This is the worst part, man.

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At 00:00:56,890, Character said: [chuckling] I don't like this.

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At 00:00:59,851, Character said: I worked at Facebook in 2011 and 2012.

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At 00:01:02,312, Character said: I was one of the really early employees
at Instagram.

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At 00:01:05,272, Character said: [man 1] I worked at, uh, Google,
uh, YouTube.

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At 00:01:08,777, Character said: [woman] Apple, Google, Twitter, Palm.

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At 00:01:12,739, Character said: I helped start Mozilla Labs
and switched over to the Firefox side.

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At 00:01:15,617, Character said: -[interviewer] Are we rolling? Everybody?
-[crew members reply]

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At 00:01:18,203, Character said: [interviewer] Great.

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At 00:01:21,206, Character said: [man 2] I worked at Twitter.

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At 00:01:23,041, Character said: My last job there

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At 00:01:24,000, Character said: was the senior vice president
of engineering.

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At 00:01:27,337, Character said: -[man 3] I was the president of Pinterest.
-[sips]

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At 00:01:29,339, Character said: Before that, um,
I was the... the director of monetization

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At 00:01:32,801, Character said: at Facebook for five years.

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At 00:01:34,344, Character said: While at Twitter, I spent a number
of years running their developer platform,

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At 00:01:38,056, Character said: and then I became
head of consumer product.

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At 00:01:40,308, Character said: I was the coinventor of Google Drive,
Gmail Chat,

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At 00:01:44,354, Character said: Facebook Pages,
and the Facebook like button.

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At 00:01:47,440, Character said: Yeah. This is... This is why I spent,
like, eight months

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At 00:01:50,860, Character said: talking back and forth with lawyers.

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At 00:01:54,072, Character said: This freaks me out.

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At 00:01:58,409, Character said: [man 2] When I was there,

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At 00:01:59,786, Character said: I always felt like,
fundamentally, it was a force for good.

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At 00:02:03,414, Character said: I don't know if I feel that way anymore.

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At 00:02:05,458, Character said: I left Google in June 2017, uh,
due to ethical concerns.

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At 00:02:10,672, Character said: And... And not just at Google
but within the industry at large.

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At 00:02:14,217, Character said: I'm very concerned.

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At 00:02:16,636, Character said: I'm very concerned.

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At 00:02:19,097, Character said: It's easy today to lose sight of the fact

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At 00:02:21,891, Character said: that these tools actually have created
some wonderful things in the world.

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At 00:02:27,897, Character said: They've reunited lost family members.
They've found organ donors.

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At 00:02:32,026, Character said: I mean, there were meaningful,
systemic changes happening

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At 00:02:36,656, Character said: around the world
because of these platforms

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At 00:02:39,242, Character said: that were positive!

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At 00:02:40,827, Character said: I think we were naive
about the flip side of that coin.

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At 00:02:45,540, Character said: Yeah, these things, you release them,
and they take on a life of their own.

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At 00:02:48,668, Character said: And how they're used is pretty different
than how you expected.

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At 00:02:52,088, Character said: Nobody, I deeply believe,
ever intended any of these consequences.

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At 00:02:56,593, Character said: There's no one bad guy.
No. Absolutely not.

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At 00:03:01,598, Character said: [interviewer] So, then,
what's the... what's the problem?

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At 00:03:09,147, Character said: [interviewer] Is there a problem,
and what is the problem?

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At 00:03:12,108, Character said: [swallows]

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At 00:03:17,614, Character said: [clicks tongue] Yeah, it is hard
to give a single, succinct...

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At 00:03:20,074, Character said: I'm trying to touch on
many different problems.

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At 00:03:22,535, Character said: [interviewer] What is the problem?

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At 00:03:24,621, Character said: [clicks tongue, chuckles]

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At 00:03:27,916, Character said: [birds singing]

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At 00:03:31,169, Character said: [dog barking in distance]

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At 00:03:33,463, Character said: [reporter 1]
Despite facing mounting criticism,

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At 00:03:35,423, Character said: the so-called Big Tech names
are getting bigger.

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At 00:03:37,759, Character said: The entire tech industry is
under a new level of scrutiny.

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At 00:03:41,012, Character said: And a new study sheds light on the link

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At 00:03:43,890, Character said: between mental health
and social media use.

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At 00:03:46,226, Character said: [on TV]
Here to talk about the latest research...

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At 00:03:48,770, Character said: [Tucker Carlson] ...is going on
that gets no coverage at all.

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At 00:03:51,481, Character said: Tens of millions of Americans
are hopelessly addicted

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At 00:03:54,192, Character said: to their electronic devices.

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At 00:03:56,402, Character said: [reporter 2] It's exacerbated by the fact

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At 00:03:58,071, Character said: that you can literally isolate yourself
now

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At 00:04:00,782, Character said: in a bubble, thanks to our technology.

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At 00:04:02,825, Character said: Fake news is becoming more advanced

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At 00:04:04,661, Character said: and threatening societies
around the world.

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At 00:04:06,871, Character said: We weren't expecting any of this
when we created Twitter over 12 years ago.

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At 00:04:10,333, Character said: White House officials say
they have no reason to believe

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At 00:04:12,585, Character said: the Russian cyberattacks will stop.

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At 00:04:14,837, Character said: YouTube is being forced
to concentrate on cleansing the site.

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At 00:04:18,216, Character said: [reporter 3] TikTok,
if you talk to any tween out there...

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At 00:04:21,636, Character said: [on TV] ...there's no chance
they'll delete this thing...

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At 00:04:24,097, Character said: Hey, Isla,
can you get the table ready, please?

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At 00:04:26,307, Character said: [reporter 4] There's a question
about whether social media

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At 00:04:28,685, Character said: is making your child depressed.

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At 00:04:30,061, Character said: [mom] Isla,
can you set the table, please?

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At 00:04:32,188, Character said: [reporter 5] These cosmetic procedures
are becoming so popular with teens,

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At 00:04:35,400, Character said: plastic surgeons have coined
a new syndrome for it,

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At 00:04:37,986, Character said: "Snapchat dysmorphia,"
with young patients wanting surgery

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At 00:04:40,905, Character said: so they can look more like they do
in filtered selfies.

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At 00:04:43,825, Character said: Still don't see why you let her have
that thing.

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At 00:04:45,994, Character said: What was I supposed to do?

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At 00:04:47,495, Character said: I mean, every other kid
in her class had one.

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At 00:04:50,164, Character said: She's only 11.

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At 00:04:51,249, Character said: Cass, no one's forcing you to get one.

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At 00:04:53,042, Character said: You can stay disconnected
as long as you want.

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At 00:04:55,169, Character said: Hey, I'm connected without a cell phone,
okay? I'm on the Internet right now.

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At 00:04:59,424, Character said: Also, that isn't even actual connection.
It's just a load of sh--

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At 00:05:03,177, Character said: Surveillance capitalism has come to shape

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At 00:05:05,096, Character said: our politics and culture
in ways many people don't perceive.

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At 00:05:07,849, Character said: [reporter 6]
ISIS inspired followers online,

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At 00:05:10,184, Character said: and now white supremacists
are doing the same.

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At 00:05:12,895, Character said: Recently in India,

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At 00:05:14,230, Character said: Internet lynch mobs have killed
a dozen people, including these five...

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At 00:05:17,525, Character said: [reporter 7] It's not just fake news;
it's fake news with consequences.

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At 00:05:20,445, Character said: [reporter 8] How do you handle an epidemic
in the age of fake news?

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At 00:05:24,157, Character said: Can you get the coronavirus
by eating Chinese food?

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At 00:05:27,535, Character said: We have gone from the information age
into the disinformation age.

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At 00:05:32,623, Character said: Our democracy is under assault.

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At 00:05:34,751, Character said: [man 4] What I said was,
"I think the tools

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At 00:05:37,003, Character said: that have been created today are starting

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At 00:05:39,088, Character said: to erode the social fabric
of how society works."

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At 00:05:55,980, Character said: -[music fades]
-[indistinct chatter]

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At 00:05:58,566, Character said: [crew member] Fine.

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At 00:06:00,151, Character said: [stage manager] Aza does
welcoming remarks. We play the video.

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At 00:06:04,197, Character said: And then, "Ladies and gentlemen,
Tristan Harris."

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At 00:06:07,408, Character said: -Right.
-[stage manager] Great.

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At 00:06:08,951, Character said: So, I come up, and...

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At 00:06:13,831, Character said: basically say, "Thank you all for coming."
Um...

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At 00:06:17,919, Character said: So, today, I wanna talk about a new agenda
for technology.

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At 00:06:22,131, Character said: And why we wanna do that
is because if you ask people,...