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The Algorithm of Hate: How Machines Amplify Dehumanisation, Division, and Violence
What if the greatest threat to empathy, truth, and democracy isn’t just trolls or extremists — but the invisible systems beneath our screens?
In The Algorithm of Hate, Dr Alexander Thompson delivers a searing, multidisciplinary investigation into how algorithmic platforms — especially social media — have become amplifiers of dehumanisation and digital violence. From the Christchurch massacre to online radicalisation pipelines, from misogyny-fueled harassment to algorithmic bias against marginalised communities, this book reveals how hate is not just surfacing on these platforms — it is being structurally rewarded.
Blending insights from psychology, sociology, technology, and ethics, Thompson
How recommendation systems prioritise outrage over truth
Why disinformation and bigotry spread faster than care or context
How race, gender, and identity are weaponised for visibility
The real-world from political destabilisation to targeted violence
What resistance, reform, and reimagination must look like
This is a bold, timely, and necessary book that refuses to separate the technical from the human — and refuses to accept that this is the best we can do.
Because the algorithm didn’t invent hate — we did.
But we can choose to teach it something else.
In The Algorithm of Hate, Dr Alexander Thompson delivers a searing, multidisciplinary investigation into how algorithmic platforms — especially social media — have become amplifiers of dehumanisation and digital violence. From the Christchurch massacre to online radicalisation pipelines, from misogyny-fueled harassment to algorithmic bias against marginalised communities, this book reveals how hate is not just surfacing on these platforms — it is being structurally rewarded.
Blending insights from psychology, sociology, technology, and ethics, Thompson
How recommendation systems prioritise outrage over truth
Why disinformation and bigotry spread faster than care or context
How race, gender, and identity are weaponised for visibility
The real-world from political destabilisation to targeted violence
What resistance, reform, and reimagination must look like
This is a bold, timely, and necessary book that refuses to separate the technical from the human — and refuses to accept that this is the best we can do.
Because the algorithm didn’t invent hate — we did.
But we can choose to teach it something else.
583 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 30, 2025
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