In 2017, Anas Modamani brought the world's first lawsuit against Facebook for violating an individual user's rights: Modamani v. Facebook. What happened next reveals the measures Facebook is willing to take to protect their business model - at the expense of the user. Modamani's story is not only a testament to the real-life cost of online hate speech and disinformation, but it exposes our true powerlessness as users and just how unprepared our governments are to fight the giant that is Facebook.
Documentary short, TRT 16 min, directed by Adrienne Collatos, premiered at SXSW 2019.