For a limited time — until the end of September 2021 — the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma can be viewed for free on YouTube.

While far from a perfect documentary, it’s certainly worth watching. As movie critic Nell Minow observes:

There have been other documentaries raising concerns about the impact of social media on our privacy and our morale and even our democracy, including the very good-to-excellent “Screened Out,” “Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World,” and “The Great Hack.” But this documentary has a significant advantage. While all of the films have impressive experts to explain how we got here and why here is not a place anyone should be, in this movie many of the experts are the same people who got us here—top executives from Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and other sites that seduce us into spending time and sharing information so they can sell both. As the film opens, we can see that the people who will be telling us their stories are uncomfortable and embarrassed. It turns out, they will be confessing and apologizing. 

Nell Minow, The Social Dilemma, RogerEbert.com