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In this timely book, Max Fisher reveals how powerful social-media giants set all of humanity on an alternative course to the future. The Chaos Machine boldly exposes how a few technology companies chose profit over people, helped spread salacious misinformation, and ultimately ripped the fabric of society apart. I hope everyone will read this important investigation with an open mind, because we must choose a different path forward, and fast.-- Amy Webb, author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity Max Fisher blends together deep reporting, riveting stories, and a global canvas in this gripping and definitive work on the damage wrought by social media. The Chaos Machine is essential reading if you want to understand a force that is reshaping the world and the very real consequences it is having on people everywhere.-- Ben Rhodes, author of the New York Times bestseller The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House Social media isn't just changing our lives. It's changing the world, and even its creators and would-be overseers have only the foggiest ideas about how. In this meticulously reported, grippingly told account, Max Fisher chases the results across continents, and paints a disturbing picture of not just where we are, but where we're going. The Chaos Machine is an essential book for our times.-- Ezra Klein, author of the New York Times bestseller Why We're Polarized

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Max Fisher is a reporter and columnist for the international desk of the New York Times. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a coauthor of a column called The Interpreter, which uses social science and other tools to explain global trends and major world events. Fisher has a master's degree in international studies from Johns Hopkins University and previously covered international affairs at The Atlantic and the Washington Post. He lives in Washington DC.

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