The Great Hack was a great movie that discussed the amount of stolen personal information in the 2016 election year, as well as some others. Professor David Carroll in particular, grew interested in the case when he discovered this leak of information. He requested that he be shown the data that was take from him, but when Cambridge Analytica failed to comply with his request, he decided to bring them to court, which led to a domino effect involving them and Facebook. It was repeatedly stated in the movie that millions of Facebook users had their information stolen and used to further a presidential candidate in the 2016 election.

It was a very interesting movie when compared to the article we read at the beginning of the semester. Both involved the Facebook scandal of third party companies stealing information, but the movie went more in depth. In the movie, scenes of Zuckerberg’s trial were shown, and you could tell he was nervous; he stuttered, and gave basic responses that dodged each question.

Throughout the semester, we have been asked the question “Are you scared of social media now that you’ve learned more about its potential of stolen information?” Although the movie did bring light to the situation, I am still rather comfortable with social media. I am not sure why, it could just be the fact that I’ve been on social media for so much of my life.