Max Fisher
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. The companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.