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Netflix’s ‘Broken’ is a damning look at some of the world’s most popular consumer products

Netflix’s Broken is a hard-hitting documentary series exploring—and exposing—corruption and unethical behavior in key consumer industries. From makeup fraud that sees people putting actual poison on their faces to furniture companies that know their products are unsafe but do very little to fix them, Broken highlights key safety risks the public faces every day.  www.dailydot.com/upstream/netflix-broken-review/

The Netflix Doc 'Broken' Shows How Social Media Helped Feed the Vape Crisis

That fact was abundantly clear this summer: In mid-July, as the vape giant set out on a sort of public-relations tour to quell criticism about skyrocketing addiction to e-cigarettes among teenagers, CNBC released a documentary featuring the company’s then-CEO, Kevin Burns. Wearing a plastic headcover and sanitary gloves, Burns took a journalist on a tour of JUUL’s facilities, as he apologized on behalf of his employer for what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has called an “epidemic of youth e-cigarette use.” This was only a month or so before the spate of vaping-related illnesses would spike in the United States, and long before the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) would determine that most of those cases are likely linked to vitamin E acetate, a compound that’s sometimes found in illicit THC cartridges (and not JUUL pods).

 

Netflix's New Docuseries 'Broken' Will Make You Afraid to Buy Anything Ever Again

There’s nothing quite like a healthy little Netflix binge to scare the pants right off you, am I right? The streaming service’s latest addition is a docuseries called Broken, and it’s going to seriously scar you for life. It’s all about the fraudulent behavior behind some of the most popular consumer products in the world. In other words: some of the stuff you’re spending your hard-earned cash on might be really harmful.