What impact is social media having on our politics and society extra broadly? In response to critics, we’re residing by means of an unregulated period of social media that may in the future look as outdated as tobacco did in its pre-regulation period.
In his new e book, “The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World” New York Occasions reporter Max Fisher explores how social media impacts the psychology of its customers and adjustments how folks suppose, behave and talk.
On this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke talks to Fisher about his e book and why he believes that is resulting in social and political crises within the U.S. and world wide.
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