Antisocial

New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz's *Antisocial* is an immersive chronicle of the internet's fraught evolution. Marantz traces how Silicon Valley's optimistic vision for a free, democratic online space was exploited by alt-right propagandists, propelling extreme ideologies into the mainstream. Drawing on years embedded with both social media entrepreneurs and the "gate crashers"—conspiracists and white supremacists adept at digital manipulation—Marantz reveals how technology, media, and politics have converged to create a deeply fractured information landscape. He shows how online radicalization takes hold, from anonymous forums to the highest echelons of power, and explores whether the architects of social media can truly address the communication crisis they helped unleash. A *New York Times* Notable Book of 2019 and Editors' Choice.

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