Max Fisher is an international reporter and columnist for The New York Times. He has reported from five continents on conflict, diplomacy, social change and other topics. He writes The Interpreter, a column exploring the ideas and context behind major world events. A weekly newsletter of the same name features original reporting and insights. He is based in New York.Before joining The Times in 2016, he launched several web-based projects aimed at expanding the audience for foreign news. This included, in 2011, an international news vertical for The Atlantic magazine; in 2012, the Washington Post's foreign news blog, WorldViews; and, in 2014, as one of the founding editors of Vox.com.
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 *
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 Date *
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 *
Well argued, engaging and often necessarily discomfiting * Irish
Independent *
A stark warning about the extent to which Facebook et al distort
our perception of reality * Guardian *
Fisher's book brings us face to face with chaos machines and their
ruinous human consequences - Literary Review
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