A six-part anthology that traverses some examples of modern misinformation and digital deception. Each episode presents an example of how the Internet has been used to cause harm and commit crimes. The people involved in the cases tell their struggles, mistakes, and efforts to catch the perpetrators, and also how it affected their lives. After introducing the key characters in the case, the episodes explain how the Internet was used to commit the crimes.
1:44:40The Internet's Own Boy is a biographical documentary of the programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, who died at age 26. From his help in the development of the basic Internet protocol RSS at age 14, to the co-founding of the social network website Reddit in 2006, Swartz becomes disillusioned with the grooming of academia to the corporate life presented to him, and turns instead to work on issues of sociology, civic awareness and activism. It then becomes Swartz's work in social justice issues and political organising, combined with an open and sharing approach to information access that ensnares him in a two year legal battle, in which authorities seek to make an example of him and the work. The battle sadly ends with Swartz taking his own life. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to the political system, civil liberties and human relationships.