HOW TO BUILD A TRUTH ENGINE

Friedrich Moser’s documentary focus has, for many years, been on the global web. What once seemed to connect us all has now become a diffuse space where doubt and division are increasingly being driven into societies with precision. HOW TO BUILD A TRUTH ENGINE explores the weaponization of disinformation, the necessity of a new kind of journalism, and the urgent need for democratic societies to find ways of coming together—both online and offline.
Disinformation and conspiracy theories have reached levels last seen during the 1930s turmoil. The documentary HOW TO BUILD A TRUTH ENGINE portrays a team of researchers from the fields of technology, journalism, folklore, and neuroscience who demonstrate how hacking the flow of information can alter the human mind. They take us from the battlefields of the information war into the depths of the human brain and explain howa network of lies can—through us— reshape reality.