Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation Audiobook (Free)

‘Trenchant and intelligent.’ –The New York Times

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From a increasing star at THE BRAND NEW Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of the way the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet–and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme in to the mainstream.

For several years, Andrew Marantz, a fresh Yorker staff writer, continues to be about Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, as well as the Hijacking from the American Conversation embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media business owners, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional method of receiving and transmitting info. The second reason is the world of the people he phone calls ‘the gate crashers’–the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who’ve become professionals at using social media marketing to progress their corrosive plan. Antisocial runs broadly–from the initial mass-printed books towards the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists towards the White colored House press briefing room–and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and how it becomes reality. Combining the willing narrative details of Bill Buford’s Among the Thugs as well as the sweep of George Packer’s The Unwinding, Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have already been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape–the landscape in which most of us now live. Marantz displays how alienated young people are led down the rabbit opening of on the web radicalization, and exactly how fringe tips spread–from anonymous edges of social media marketing to cable TV towards the President’s Twitter give food to. Marantz also rests using the creators of social networking as they start to reckon with the pushes they’ve unleashed. Can they be able to resolve the communication problems they helped produce, or are their interventions inadequate too late?