Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate and the Dark Side of the Internet

2024

Documentary

1
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 75 75

Plot summary

How does a self-professed misogynist become one of the world’s most influential people, and remain so even after being charged with rape and human trafficking? Andrew Tate’s meteoric rise to infamy has provoked global uproar, but the controversial figure is also a terrifying symptom of the increasingly fractured world in which we live, propelled by the social media platforms beneath our fingertips.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
August 10, 2024 at 11:58 PM

Director

Top cast

Harvey Weinstein as Self - Former Film Producer
Donald Trump as Self - 45th President of the United States
Alex Jones as Self - Host, Infowars
Stephen K. Bannon as Self - Former White House Chief Strategist
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
827.71 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 8
1.66 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by imseeg 7 / 10

How tech companies' greed empowers controversy: "Being able to flip a switch and affect 400 million people".

I expected a bashing and ridiculing of Andrew Tate and his followers and it is partly about how terrible Andrew Tate's ideas are, but fortunately we get to see and hear fans of Tate as well so as not to make this movie a totally one sided story. Although it is probably best suited for the Tate haters out there and not so much suited for the fans of Tate. Just saying...

This movie covers 2 subjects: one being masculinity, the other being the power of tech companies.

What interested me the most were the interviews which laid bare the power of social media companies (Instagram for example) and how their engineers can literally flip a switch and affect what 400 million people worldwide get to see (or NOT get to see).

One particular Instagram software engineer (who made Instagram big at the start), said he only worked in a team of a mere 15 engineers, while Instagram was being used by hundreds of millions of people at that time. He talked about his power of being able to influence the news of hundreds of millions of people every day and told about how predictable people were in their behaviour and how easily they could be influenced and hooked by showing specific content.

Will people in the world get to see Andrew Tate that very day yes or no? It's decision was made by computer programmers. 15 of them actually in the case of Instagram. And they wrote software that promoted the vision of Tate with explosive results.

WHY did they promote Andrew Tate's vision and persona? Because it kept people hooked to wanna see more on their tech platform, so the advertisers will wanna advertise on their social media platform more and the tech companies will make MORE MONEY because of it!

Controversy (whichever controversy) is good for advertising power! And therefore good for tech companies profits! And Andrew Tate rose to great popularity because of that particular GREED of tech companies some years back UNTIL it suddenly was stopped. With a flip of a switch!

The other part of this documentary is about why young men were (and still are) attracted to Andrew Tate's ideas and persona. We get so hear several journalists and activists give a social analysis of young men failing to find role models in todays society (often boys from broken marriages without a father). And we get to see a cultural analysis of todays focus on empowering women's rights and their progress, but forgetting about creating and discussing similar norms and values for young men.

Interesting analysis of the power of tech companies and the way we communicate with each other nowaday.

Reviewed by / 10

Read more IMDb reviews

1 Comment

Be the first to leave a comment