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Fisher, Max.
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Social media -- Corrupt practices.
Social media -- Psychological aspects.
Social media -- Influence.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Internet industry -- Corrupt practices.
Social media and society.
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Fisher, Max.
Social media -- Corrupt practices.
Social media -- Psychological aspects.
Social media -- Influence.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Internet industry -- Corrupt practices.
Social media and society.
MARC Display
The chaos machine : the inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world /
Max
Fisher
.
by
Fisher
,
Max
.
Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Call #:
070.449302 F535c
Subjects
Social media -- Corrupt practices.
Social media -- Psychological aspects.
Social media -- Influence.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Internet industry -- Corrupt practices.
Social media and society.
ISBN:
9780316703321 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world
Description:
ix, 400 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-375) and index
Summary:
"From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, 'an essential book for our times' (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement -- and profits -- at all costs fractured the world. 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 networks, in their pursuit of unfettered profits, 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 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."--Goodreads.
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