Join us for this must-see film that won Best Documentary at the 2024 Tribeca Festival. HACKING HATE will screen on October 7, 2024 at The Lyric at 6:30 p.m. The film will be followed by a panel discussion about online hate and misinformation by CSU faculty.
HACKING HATE, Simon Klose, 2024, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, 86 minutes, English, Swedish, Norwegian, English Subtitles
Film description: Sometimes the only way out is in. Award-winning reporter My Vingren goes undercover online, using fake profiles to expose how extremist movements are using social media to recruit and radicalize. She successfully infiltrates a secret online nazi organization, only to discover it’s an influence operation. Truth and reality twist as My gets closer to the group’s inner circle and starts to question who is really pulling the strings.
Having published some of the biggest investigations into white supremacist movements in Sweden, the media has come to call her the “real life Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. But her investigations come with a price, she has to live at an undisclosed address. Vingren is not alone in questioning the prevalence of hate online. Her investigations connect her with Anika Collier Navaroli, the whistleblower instrumental in Twitter’s suspension of Donald Trump, and Imran Ahmed, a researcher sued by Elon Musk for exposing hate speech on X. Together they unpack the mechanisms of big social-media companies that amplify and profit from hate, and share how they are fighting to make tech platforms accountable for their role in undermining our global democracy.
Presented in partnership with Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities and CSU’s Democracy initiatives.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can $0+ and all ticket revenue helps underwrite event costs.
October 7, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. at The Lyric (1209 N. College Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80524). Parking information here.