Official Trailer for ‘Cannot Look Away’ Doc on Risks of Social Media
by Alex Billington
March 21, 2025
Supply: YouTube
“Our kids are the casualties.” Jolt Movie, in partnership with Bloomberg, revealed an official trailer for a documentary movie titled Cannot Look Away, arriving for streaming to observe (on-line or in theaters) in April. The precise title is Cannot Look Away: The Case Towards Social Media – impressed by Olivia Carville’s reporting on youngster security on-line & social media for Bloomberg Information / Businessweek. “All of us have a way that social media is vaguely dangerous for youths – we thought so too. However making this has revealed the total extent of the hurt.” The movie exposes the real-world penalties of harmful social media algorithms that exploit & endanger weak younger customers. “This is not only a tech drawback – it is a full-blown public well being catastrophe, and we’re solely starting to understand the implications.” Yep. This is not the primary doc about social media being dangerous – Jeff Orlowski made the doc movie The Social Dilemma just a few years in the past, and it is on Netflix now, however not that many individuals watched it. And sadly most individuals do not actually wish to have the robust dialog about how dangerous social media actually is, and never only for youngsters, however for all of society. We’re all hooked on it.
This is the official trailer for Matthew O’Neill & Perri Peltz’s doc Cannot Look Away, from YouTube:
“This documentary tells the painful tales of households in search of justice for his or her family members who’ve suffered unimaginable hurt. Cannot Look Away, which pulls on Olivia Carville’s in depth reporting, shines a a lot wanted gentle on the way in which that tech giants nonetheless attempt to keep away from accountability for the content material on their platforms, regardless of the enormously addictive energy of the algorithms that they’ve constructed.” –Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait
The cautionary documentary Cannot Look Away follows a group of attorneys battling a number of tech firms, preventing for households whose kids suffered devastating hurt – suicide, drug overdose, or exploitation – tied to social media. By emotional testimonies and high-stakes authorized battles, the movie exposes the stress between company revenue and youngster security, revealing catastrophic failures. As households search justice, Cannot Look Away serves as a wake-up name concerning the risks of social media and the very pressing want to guard its youngest customers. Matthew O’Neill & Perri Peltz (additionally of Puppies Behind Bars, Warning: This Drug Might Kill You), each administrators of “Axios” on HBO and Surveilled doc with Ronan Farrow beforehand. Produced by Anna Casper, Matthew O’Neill & Perri Peltz. In July 2025, the movie will debut to observe throughout Bloomberg’s media platforms. Jolt Movie will even launch Cannot Look Away in choose US theaters (at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema in NYC) and streaming on Jolt beginning on April 4th, 2025 this spring. Who’s intrigued?