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How to Build a Truth Engine
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A film that shows how our brains fall for fake news and conspiracy theories, and what we can do about it. The film celebrated its world premiere at SXSW this year and its European premiere at the Gartenbaukino on 13 October.
Disinformation and conspiracy theories have reached a level not seen since the turmoil of the 1930s. The documentary film HOW TO BUILD A TRUTH ENGINE portrays a team of researchers from the fields of technology, journalism, folklore and neuroscience who show that it is possible to hack a person's mind by hacking the information supply. They take us from the battlefields of information warfare into the inner workings of the human brain and explain how - through us - a web of lies can change reality.
* Prof. Dr Itzhak Fried from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles - https://www.uclahealth.org/providers/itzhak-fried), one of the world's leading brain surgeons and neuroscientists, who also works closely with the Institute d'Etudes Avancées in Paris, where he heads a research group looking at the processes that take place in the brain when normal people become mass murderers in genocides (and what can be done about it). He is also an advisor to the UN in Geneva on the subject of technological implants and extensions of the human brain (i.e. the real precursor to cyborgs, which already exist) and what regulations need to be developed for this.
* Pulitzer and multiple Emmy winner Christoph Koettl from the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl)
* ICIJ journalist (www.icij.org) and podcaster Michael Nikbakhsh (https://dunkelkammer.simplecast.com/)
* Director & Producer Friedrich Moser (www.friedrichmoser.com)
Producer: Friedrich Moser
Producer: Robert Rippberger, Ivan Williams
Executive Producers: George Clooney & Grant Heslov, Tonmoy Monsoor, Patrick Lechner, Jamie Coughlin Silverman, Gabriel Silverman, Natalie Marciano, Rock Jacobs, Matthew SpainCo-Executive Producers: David Jay Lasky, Batia Parnass
Production: Friedrich Moser Film GmbH
With the support of: Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF Film/Television Agreement
In co-operation with: SIE Films, SideXSide Studios, Rebel Entertainment
Distribution: Friedrich Moser Film GmbH www.friedrichmoser.com, www.truthengine.at