A carefully constructed and often sobering documentary about disinformation, “How to Build a Truth Engine” makes meticulous efforts to lay out its visual and thematic groundwork. However, its chilling portrait of the digital world comes up against a unique roadblock. A fleeting scene late in the film not only plays like a last-minute addition (concerning recent real-world events), but calls the movie’s own methodology into question. That the film is so effective at building its arguments is both testament and fatal flaw. When its narrative gives in to the same impulses it critiques, the audience has, ironically, been trained to recognize this failing.
Director Friedrich Moser builds a sense of allure as he introduces his ensemble of subjects, from neuroscientists to investigative journalists, whose fields of study seem completely disparate from one another at first. Moser, also the movie’s cinematographer, imbues each sprawling establishing landscape shot and intimate...
Director Friedrich Moser builds a sense of allure as he introduces his ensemble of subjects, from neuroscientists to investigative journalists, whose fields of study seem completely disparate from one another at first. Moser, also the movie’s cinematographer, imbues each sprawling establishing landscape shot and intimate...
- 3/9/2024
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Variety Film + TV
George Clooney and Grant Heslov have joined Austrian director Friedrich Moser’s feature documentary “How to Build a Truth Engine” as executive producers through their Smokehouse Pictures banner.
The docu, now in the final stages of filming, tackles investigative journalism and the fight against fake news. Moser follows award-winning journalists from the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Icij, and Austria’s weeklies Falter and Profil in their efforts to uncover corruption, disinformation, and war crimes. Produced by Robert Rippberger and Amina Bayou, it tracks teams who are developing artificial intelligence software for real-time detection of conspiracy theories, fake news and disinformation.
A former TV journalist, Moser founded Vienna-based Blue + Green Communication production company in 2001. He last directed “Money Bots,” released last year, writing and directing the documentary “Beer! A Love Story” in 2019. Other documentaries include “A Good American,” a film about Bill Binney and the Nsa that premiered...
The docu, now in the final stages of filming, tackles investigative journalism and the fight against fake news. Moser follows award-winning journalists from the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Icij, and Austria’s weeklies Falter and Profil in their efforts to uncover corruption, disinformation, and war crimes. Produced by Robert Rippberger and Amina Bayou, it tracks teams who are developing artificial intelligence software for real-time detection of conspiracy theories, fake news and disinformation.
A former TV journalist, Moser founded Vienna-based Blue + Green Communication production company in 2001. He last directed “Money Bots,” released last year, writing and directing the documentary “Beer! A Love Story” in 2019. Other documentaries include “A Good American,” a film about Bill Binney and the Nsa that premiered...
- 10/14/2021
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
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