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The chaos machine : the inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world / Max Fisher

Author
Fisher, Max
Published
New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First Back Bay paperback edition.
Physical Description
410 pages ; 21 cm

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Contents
Prologue: consequences -- Trapped in the casino -- Everything is Gamergate -- Opening the portal -- Tyranny of cousins -- Awakening the machine -- The fun house mirror -- The germs and the wind -- Church bells -- The rabbit hole -- The new overlords -- Dictatorship of the like -- Infodemic -- Epilogue: whistleblowing.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9780316703307
0316703303
Note
Includes index.
"With a new afterword by he author"--Cover.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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