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| The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher |
We all have a indistinct experience that social media is horrific for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the fact is that its attain and effect run a ways deeper than we've understood. Building on years of global reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inner tale of the way Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and different social networks preyed on mental frailties to create the algorithms that force normal customers to excessive reviews and, increasingly, excessive actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies’ founding tenets, mixed with a blinkered consciousness on maximizing engagement, have caused a destabilized international for everyone.
Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in a ways-off locales, to their darkish fruits in America in the course of the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection. Through it all, the social-media giants refused to interfere in any significant way, claiming to champion loose speech whilst in reality what they maximum prized have been infinite profits. The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift closer to a international wherein human beings are polarized now no longer via way of means of ideals primarily based totally on facts, however via way of means of misinformation, outrage, and fear.
His narrative is ready extra than the villains, however. Fisher additionally weaves collectively the tales of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and discovered what become going on at the back of the closed doorways of Big Tech. Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric upward push and afflicted legacy . of the tech titans, in addition to a rousing and hopeful name to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our international earlier than it’s too late.
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