(Read Online) The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World *Books

From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, ?an essential book for our times? (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech?s breakneck race to drive engagement?and profits?at all costs fractured the worldWe 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 networks, in their pursuit of unfettered profits, 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 maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the