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Black Mirror is widely loved, but it's also horrifying to watch. So what makes it so compelling, and is it more than a critique of technology?

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Video footage is taken from episodes of Black Mirror, a show written and created by Charlie Brooker. The full series can be found on Netflix.com

The first song is The Snow Queen Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The second song is Mariage d'Amour - Paul de Senneville || Jacob's Piano which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoCG-WNsZio

The article titled "The Case Against Black Mirror" can be found at http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/black-mirror-the-case-against-it.html The section in this video was taken directly from that article, but is not the entire article.

The poll of favorite episodes is http://www.strawpoll.me/11556061/r and was found on the Black Mirror subreddit.

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More sources should mean more credible, but the flaws of online journalism have changed what qualifies as “truth” on the internet.



https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/inside-an-online-content-mill-or-writing-4156-words-a-day-just-to-earn-lunch-money/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/28/410313446/why-a-journalist-scammed-the-media-into-spreading-bad-chocolate-science

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