Andrew Marantz
402 pages
From a rising star at The New Yorker comes 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.ream.
This book offers a compelling exploration of how viral social media campaigns have shifted from education to the propagation of extreme views, starting with the alt-right.