The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
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- Create Date：2022-09-02 16:21:42
- Update Date：2025-09-07
- Status：finish
- Author：Max Fisher
- ISBN：031670332X
- Environment：PC/Android/iPhone/iPad/Kindle
Reviews
Carla Bayha
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This is a terrifying， well-argued polemic against the power of social media to turn the average apolitical person into a hate spewing warrior or worse， both at home and abroad in places like Myanmar and Brazil， and even Germany。 The origin story of Silicon Valley culture is not nerd kids in garages， but a U。S。 military scrambling after Pearl Harbor to diversify bombing targets near the Pacific， while investing in war technologies。 Tech companies are not just controlled by their boards， but by th This is a terrifying， well-argued polemic against the power of social media to turn the average apolitical person into a hate spewing warrior or worse， both at home and abroad in places like Myanmar and Brazil， and even Germany。 The origin story of Silicon Valley culture is not nerd kids in garages， but a U。S。 military scrambling after Pearl Harbor to diversify bombing targets near the Pacific， while investing in war technologies。 Tech companies are not just controlled by their boards， but by the need to keep their libertarian leaning top software engineers from jumping ship， a governance by mostly male gamer culture， with few qualms about the consequences of spreading misinformation。 And media content is controlled， with little ethical oversight， by a "Hal"-like system of suggestion algorithms that hooks an all ages audience， by pushing content that increases the ratio of conspiracy， lies， hate， and of course advertising revenue， the longer that you watch。 YouTube comes in for the worst drubbing， but it's an "arms race for attention" and Facebook， YouTube， and Twitter are creating new tribal identity groups and supplying them with genocidal justification。 。。。more
Randal White
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