“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” by Max Fisher

This recently published book explores how social media exacerbates social conflict. “The very structure of social media encourages polarization,” says Fisher. Fisher explores how algorithms encourage this polarization in a book that Ezra Klein calls a “meticulously reported, grippingly told account” and “an essential book for our times.”