Summary of Max Fisher's the Chaos Machine
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Get the Summary of Max Fisher's The Chaos Machine in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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. 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.
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IRB Media. (2023). Summary of Max Fisher's the Chaos Machine. [United States], IRB.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)IRB Media. 2023. Summary of Max Fisher's the Chaos Machine. [United States], IRB.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)IRB Media, Summary of Max Fisher's the Chaos Machine. [United States], IRB, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)IRB Media. Summary of Max Fisher's the Chaos Machine. [United States], IRB, 2023.
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