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Antisocial
- How Online Extremists Broke America
- Narrated by: Andrew Marantz
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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Antisocial
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Publisher's Summary
This is a story about how the extreme became mainstream. It reveals how the truth became ‘fake news’, how fringe ideas spread and how a candidate many dismissed as a joke was propelled to the presidency by the dark side of the internet. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded with alt-right propagandists, who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. He also spent time with the social-media entrepreneurs who made this possible, through their naive and reckless ambition, by disrupting all of the traditional information systems.
Join Marantz as some of the biggest brains in Silicon Valley teach him how to make content go viral; as he hangs out with the conspiracists, white supremacists and nihilist trolls using these ideas to make their memes, blogs and podcasts incredibly successful; and as he meets some of the people led down the rabbit hole of online radicalisation.
Antisocial is about how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then becomes reality. By telling the story of the people who hijacked the American conversation, Antisocial will help you understand the world they have created, in which we all now live.
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- Neil Diskin-Holdaway
- 17-07-2020
Excellent — required to understand the contemporary world
Like a NYer article, but longer. The book gives an account of how the techno-utopians’ optimism blinded them to their platforms’ potential to wreck havoc on our civic fabric. You can’t understand this decade without this book. Here it is, in careful detail.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-07-2020
Only complaint is he adopts voices for quotes
The author tries to mimic someone's voice when quoting them which becomes very grating.
Besides that, it's very interesting and well crafted.
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- Adam Smith
- 12-07-2020
A very important, illuminating book
Anyone who uses the internet should read this book.
Fascinating, frightening and incisive.
Highly recommended
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- Saraswati
- 03-03-2020
Everyone should read this book
Antisocial is a deeply concerning indictment of our 'new world'.
This isn't one of those hastily researched books about Trump and Trump does not feature much at all. But his most ardent fans certainly do. Marantz was researching the alt-right before 2016 and has rare insights into their attitudes from that time.
The book tells the stories of quite a few of these 'characters'. The fact that he could spend so much time with them and come out seemingly unscathed (at least in a literary sense) is of real credit to him and his art.
It's a well researched and astutely written description of a deeply troubled time that should be read as widely as possible.
If an author can get away with reading their own book (and most can't and usually don't) then it adds another dimension as nobody knows the content better. Marantz does and excellent job.
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