Jakob Gottschau

Jakob Gottschau is a Danish documentary filmmaker. He has in recent years produced several films in which he has investigated if social media promoting og disrupting democracy. He has been in Egypt in 2012 - a year after the January Revolution, and in 2013 he visited China to explore the democratic debate on Weibo (the chinese Facebook). By 2015 he investigated Facebook's censorship policy and handling personal data in his film Facebookistan. And in his latest movie from 2018 - 'The factory of Lies', he portrays the infamous trolley factory in Saint Petersburg, Russia where 3-500 employees spread lies and false news in other countries.