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Antisocial, how online extremists broke America, [written and] read by Andrew Marantz

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Antisocial

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[written and] read by Andrew Marantz

how online extremists broke America

A deeply immersive chronicle of how 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 into the mainstream. 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 the traditional information systems. Antisocial is about how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then becomes reality

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