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

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

Max Fisher

352 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction psychology technology challenging informative medium-paced

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The Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media. The election of populists like Trump and Bolsonaro; strife and genocide in countries like Myanmar; the rampant spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories as deadly as the...

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