The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World - Max Fisher Audiobook
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The debut of a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist: a gripping narrative that fuses research, exclusive interviews, and on-the-ground reporting to capture the full inside story of Big Tech’s monomaniacal race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs.
We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for us, for our children, and for our democracies. But what exactly is it about Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms that causes this creeping feeling of unease? Max Fisher, using years of his own international reporting for the New York Times, tells the inside story of how the social networks fundamentally altered the world, detailing the roots of their ideology, their race to maximize engagement, and the resulting algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions.
Taking the listener from deep inside Silicon Valley to the far reaches of Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Germany, and Brazil, Max Fisher unfolds the definitive account of how the social-media harms that sometimes began in forgotten pockets of the world saw their dark culmination in America through the pandemic, the 2020 election, and Capitol Insurrection. The result is an intimately detailed account of the consequences of the polarization that social media incubates: the cancellations, the omnipotence of hate speech, and the spillover into real-world violence. Fisher weaves together the stories of dozens of alarmed outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors to reveal the true human cost at the heart of social media.
The Chaos Machine is a fresh, excoriating, and definitive narrative of the rise and legacy of the social-media giants. Delivering both astounding stories and hard-hitting reporting, Fisher captures the tangible havoc wreaked upon our minds and our world by the titans of the tech industry.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 2.5/5
June 19th, 2023
Social media has developed, in our children, the attention span of a fish. Mr.
Fisher must realize that the Gen Z drones will not read this book because they can’t concentrate beyond a few seconds. They don’t have the capacity to do so.
To the Z’ers, social media is an opportunity to become “famous” for a few seconds. Social media has taken over and trained its followers to not think critically, inability to communicate face to face with a real human, and follow, mindlessly, the flavor of the day.
June 20th, 2023
**Welcome to the internet death spiral**
“Something as complex as an electricity grid requires massive spending on running, maintaining and expanding the system. For this to be affordable, some combination of public support and mass consumption is required. Public support ensures that those taxpayers with the broadest shoulders carry the bigger cost, while mass consumption ensures that the cost-per-user is kept to a minimum. Problems begin though, if unit costs rise above people’s ability to pay. When this happens, those on the lowest incomes either self-disconnect or are forcibly disconnected if they default on their bills. Of course, this happened to some extent even when the economy was booming and electricity was cheap. But in the years since the 2008 crash, a much bigger mass of people disconnected or were cut off.”
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“Nevertheless, it turns out that any infrastructure built around one or other version of mass consumption (whether with or without state support) risks the same inherent design feature in the event that the running costs exceed people’s ability to pay.”
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/05/23/welcome-to-the-internet-death-spiral/
June 20th, 2023
In Canada the federal government is already bailing out the big ISP’s via subsidizing “low income” people & families.
The first residential internet service in Canada was 1995.
So not even 3 decades in & they need bailing out. Same as big fossil fuel - the king of tax payer funded subsidies, loosely hidden as helping grandma pay her power bill etc, etc.
So BIG ISP’s can now stand next to BIG fossil fuel & BIG, too BIG to fail, banks as capitalism’s dud’s.
Dead weight writ large. Their ‘free market’ is just as much of a fantasy as heaven - ‘ya it’s invisible, but I just know it’s there - trust me.’
The internet is a big toy. Digital amusement. It’s days are numbered & I could care less. Lived the first 30 years with no internet & did just fine. Bought books, traded books, borrowed books. I know of a couple of great old, new & used book stores lost out in the digital age. When I was just starting out with low paying work, I would spend hours & hours on weekends in old new & used record & book stores {love the smell of an old book store} bargain hunting - it was like a game. In my book the internet has been a net loss for humanity. No need to list all the reasons.
https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2022/04/government-of-canada-announces-affordable-high-speed-internet-to-help-connect-low-income-families-and-seniors.html
June 20th, 2023
apollo60: OK boomer
June 21st, 2023
kokoko GenZ Dopey,
In regard to you illuminating contribution and response to apollo60’s comment - Why is it that when someone speaks the truth, you resort to using ageist insults? If you disagree with apollo60, why not provide an explanation instead? I believe I understand the reasons, but I would appreciate hearing your perspective. Is it perhaps too time-consuming for you to think and respond in a logical manner? Could it be that Apollo’s comment struck a nerve? Inquiring minds that are still capable of critical thinking and expressing coherent thoughts would genuinely appreciate an answer.
November 12th, 2023
This is the best book I have listened to this year. Brilliantly researched and well written. Having read it, the crazy world we now live in starts to make perfect sense. Highly recommended.
December 18th, 2025
Seed, please
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