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Antisocial by Andrew Marantz6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() In candid conversations with Silicon Valley executives and social media entrepreneurs, Andrew Marantz discovers a selective community of techno-utopians who took Mark Zuckerberg’s motto, “Move Fast and Break Things,” to heart. He reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in the deeply broken informational landscape in which we all now live. ![]() Marantz weaves these two worlds together to create an unsettling portrait of today’s America, both online and in real life. The second is the world of the people he calls the gate-crashers-the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their agenda, influence elections, or just make money. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs-the new gatekeepers of Silicon Valley-who upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. This conversation is meant to help us understand what went wrong and how we might go about trying to fix it.įor several years, New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz has been embedded in two worlds. In the book, Andrew reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in the deeply broken informational landscape in which we all now live. In this week’s episode of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz, about his new book “Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation. ![]()
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