{"product_id":"the-chaos-machine-the-inside-story-of-how-social-media-rewired-our-minds-and-our-world-paperback","title":"The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMax Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003einvestigative reporter, this \"authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech's breakneck race to drive engagement--and profits--at all costs fractured the world. \u003ci\u003eThe Chaos Machine \u003c\/i\u003eis \"an essential book for our times\" (Ezra Klein).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Chaos Machine \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMax Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e is an international reporter for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, where he authors a column called \"The Interpreter,\" which explains global trends and major world events, and where he contributed to a series about social media that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2019. Fisher previously covered international affairs at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51964767797549,"sku":"9780316703307","price":23.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/the-chaos-machine-the-inside-story-of-how-social-media-rewired-our-minds-and-our-world-paperback-7847030.webp?v=1775471766","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-chaos-machine-the-inside-story-of-how-social-media-rewired-our-minds-and-our-world-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}