The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
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- Create Date：2022-09-12 11:21:36
- Update Date：2025-09-06
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- Author：Max Fisher
- ISBN：1668614782
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Reviews
Ula Tardigrade
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Very timely and accessible description of the current state of social media and their evil influence on all of us， as well as a guide through its short but complicated history。 The author， an investigative reporter from the New York Times， clearly knows his craft， so he gives us a fast paced journalistic account， with many colorful characters and surprising plot twists。If you’re following this topic closely you will be familiar with most of the phenomena and events described here， but nonetheles Very timely and accessible description of the current state of social media and their evil influence on all of us， as well as a guide through its short but complicated history。 The author， an investigative reporter from the New York Times， clearly knows his craft， so he gives us a fast paced journalistic account， with many colorful characters and surprising plot twists。If you’re following this topic closely you will be familiar with most of the phenomena and events described here， but nonetheless you will find an engaging and interesting story。 And if you’ve just recently begun to wonder what is going on and want to be up-to-date as soon as possible， this book will be a perfect choice。 Thanks to the publisher， Little， Brown and Company， and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book。 。。。more
Kirsten
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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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