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    The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media     
   Rewired Our Minds and Our World | Paperback   
      
   Max Fisher   
      
   Little, Brown and Company | Back Bay Books   
      
   Social Science / Sociology - Social Theory / Business & Economics / Industries   
   - Computers & Information Technology / Psychology / Social Psychology   
      
   Release date Oct 10, 2023 | Demand (#120)   
      
   "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.   
      
   USA buyers, support the local bookshop of your choice here:   
      
   http://bookshop.org/a/93260/9780316703307   
      
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