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Exemple sur The Social Dilemma (Netflix, 2020) : Jeff Orlowski's documentary The Social Dilemma explores how the design of major social media platforms — Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok — has damaging effects on mental health, democratic discourse and civic life. The film's central thesis is that platforms have been engineered for maximum engagement, at the cost of users' well-being, using psychological insights to keep them scrolling. It combines interviews with former Silicon Valley engineers (Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin, Justin Rosenstein) with a fictional narrative about a teenage boy drawn into radical online communities. Arguably, its main strength is putting a human face on abstract algorithmic mechanisms. However, some critics have noted that the film focuses on individual designers rather than on the systemic incentives of surveillance capitalism, and that its solutions remain vague. Nonetheless, it played a major role in bringing platform design to public awareness, and remains a valuable introduction to the debate.