Chaos Machine
by Max Fisher · first published 2022
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Have you ever read “The Chaos Machine” by Max Fisher?
on “Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls” ↗…erupt, Facebook did then reach out...to ask why their Sri Lankan traffic had dropped off. This is documented in a variety of places, but for an excellent write-up of these tragedies I'd recommend The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher.
on “Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey” ↗It's the same story since at least 2012. It is well documented in the book "The chaos machine" by Max Fisher. Facebook employees, journalists and psychologists have studied the phenomenon and Facebook's (as well as Youtube's) response is always the typical "We have done something" to calm the…
on “Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers” ↗…the ones that click on ads. [1] https://time.com/collections/the-cloud/3950525/facebook-news... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/facebook-... [3] https://www.supersummary.com/the-chaos-machine/summary/ - the whole "Chaos Machine" book is excellent
on “Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media” ↗