eBook, 366 pages
English language
Published Sept. 28, 2022 by Little Brown & Company.
The Chaos Machine
The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
by Max Fisher
4 stars
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The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. The companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.
Subjects
- Social Media — Psychological Aspects
- Internet — Social Aspects
- Social Media and Society