Reviews tagging 'War'

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher

3 reviews

emily_koopmann's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sellnow_hannah's review

dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

This book will make you want to want to delete all your social media accounts and boycott YouTube… eye opening, shocking, appalling. My jaw actually dropped at a couple points when reading about how Facebook executives responded concerns brought to them. The past few years there has been increasing awareness generally about how social media is causing problems in our societies, but having it all laid out with worldwide examples of its disastrous effects is pretty damning. 
One of my top books this year. Hard to get through because of the heavy material, but well worth the read. Should be required reading honestly. 

Read for the League of Women Voters of Larimer County Informed Citizen Bookclub 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

alisonvh's review

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

This book is terrifying, but so good! It’s incredibly thorough and thoughtful. It has completely changed the way I look at the world, and I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Suicide