Christopher Wylie, who worked for Cambridge Analytica, reveals how Facebook data was extracted from 87 million people to build a system that could profile individual US voters in order to target them with personalized political ads. At the time the company was owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and headed by Donald Trump’s key adviser, Steve Bannon.
Should we edit our DNA? There are decisions being made right now that could have an effect on global populations for generations to come. This work of fiction imagines a future where gene editing has become mainstream and discusses the moral, ethical and political divides that this might create.
The film explores the murky world of genetic sampling, engineering and ownership and its explicit links to a far from dormant colonialism. It inspires audiences to ask serious questions of the collective illusion we call progress.