The Great Hack

The Great Hack

The Great Hack

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2019

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114 min

Runtime

Documentary

Overview

Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

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Keywords

propaganda

politics

united kingdom

social network

behavior modification

whistleblower

political thriller

facebook

brexit

usa election

big data

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Cast

Brittany Kaiser

Brittany Kaiser

Self - Former Dir. of Business Development, Cambridge Analytica

David Carroll

David Carroll

Self - Associate Professor Parsons School of Design

Paul-Olivier Dehaye

Paul-Olivier Dehaye

Self - Founder @PersonalDataIO

Ravi Naik

Ravi Naik

Self - Data Rights Solicitor

Julian Wheatland

Self - Former COO/CFO Cambridge Analytica/SCL

Carole Cadwalladr

Self - Investigative Journalist for The Guardian

Christopher Wiley

Self - Former Cambridge Analytica Employee and Whistleblower

Paul Hilder

Self - Writer/Political Technologist

Emma Graham-Harrison

Self - International Affairs Correspondent, The Observer

Gill Phillips

Self - Legal Council, The Guardian

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7.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

September 14, 2026

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7/10

With so much currently being said about the abilities of AI to run amok, it's quite useful to turn the clock back to this documentary and appreciate that many of the issues being discussed now could have been foretold a decade ago. The focus of this rather lengthy and erratically paced film is a com…

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