Hoaxed doesn’t avoid taking a stand but it also does not fail to be nuanced.
It shows not merely the sins of the media but of the individual both in the production and ostensibly the audience. It refuses to engage in hagiography.
The production value is very high, the technical achievement is superb, and it’s artful. It manages to simultaneously explain how manipulation works while artfully pulling on the viewers emotions. It’s quite sophisticated and will cause the savvy member of the audience to both feel something and question that feeling almost all at once. It’s very meta as Mike would say.
It holds a mirror up to the corporate media, to the viewer, and even to themselves as makers of (alternative) media and thus as influencers. This is an excellent film.