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    The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media     
   Rewired Our Minds and Our World | Hardcover   
      
   Max Fisher   
      
   Little, Brown and Company   
      
   Social Science / Sociology - Social Theory / Business & Economics / Industries   
   - Computers & Information Technology / Psychology / Social Psychology   
      
   Published Sep 6, 2022   
      
   "We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our     
   minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth     
   is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have     
   understood.   
      
   "Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells     
   the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter,     
   YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological     
   frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to     
   extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher     
   demonstrates, the companies' founding tenets, combined with a     
   blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a     
   destabilized world for everyone.   
      
   "Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate   
   speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first   
   festered in far-off locales, to their dark culmination in   
   America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol   
   Insurrection.   
      
   "Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene   
   in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in   
   fact what they most prized were limitless profits. The result,   
   as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which   
   people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by   
   misinformation, outrage, and fear.   
      
   "His narrative is about more than the villains, however. Fisher   
   also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and   
   Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what   
   was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech. Both   
   panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive   
   account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech   
   titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the   
   havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it's too late.   
      
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