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The Chaos Machine

The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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The Chaos Machine

Written by: Max Fisher
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
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How social media is hacking our minds, our societies and the world—and what we can do about it.

The Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media. The election of populists like Trump and Bolsonaro; strife and genocide in countries like Myanmar, the rampant spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories as deadly as the pandemic itself, all of these are products of a breakdown in our social and political lives, a breakdown driven by the apps, companies and algorithms that compete constantly for our attention.

Max Fisher is a leading New York Times technology reporter whose work has covered the way that social media sites—driven increasingly by artificial intelligence rather than human ingenuity—push users towards more and more extreme positions, deepening the divisions in society in pursuit of greater engagement and profit. With extraordinary access to the most powerful players in Silicon Valley, and with testimonies from around the world of the havoc being wreaked by our online selves, The Chaos Machine shows us how we got to this uniquely perilous moment—and how we might get out of it.

©2022 Max Fisher (P)2022 Hachette Audio Internet & Social Media Media Studies Popular Culture Social Sciences
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liked the fearless calling out of conflict of interest of the social media companies in promoting certain content. what's left unsaid is the unimaginable impact of AI on social media. what I foresee is a natural fading out of mass-com social Media due to distrust which indiscriminate use of AI will bring in ...

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