How to Build a Truth Engine

The CIRAC fi lm series this autumn features three films that focus on how technologies transform practices and politics of care in democracies. We ask: Who assumes responsibility for sustainable and inclusive design, and for the use and regulation of data-intensive technologies when big tech firms do not seem to care about democratic values?

Fake news, propaganda, and disinformation have become key ingredients for the erosion of trust in democracies. This Austrian documentary portrays researchers who investigate how such manipulations not only change people’s understandings of the world, but the world itself.