The film hops between 2019 and 2022, sometimes to jarring effect. Haugen, a data scientist in Facebook’s now-disbanded civic integrity team and a true believer in its mission, begins to question what she sees after this video. Horwitz, a beat reporter covering Facebook, who isn’t even on Facebook (a true millennial), emails every civic integrity team member, attempting to cultivate an ongoing credible source. Haugen is the only one to reply, and she starts feeding him information, then evidence, including the algorithm change, palatably named MSI (meaningful social interactions).
