Otto Anson’s Reviews > The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World > Status Update

Bruh this book is insane 😭 Just read a section on how YouTube’s engagement-driven algorithm pushes increasingly sexualized videos involving children

Reed asked me why I think social media has made politics more polarized, and at the time I couldn’t explain myself. Found this quote tho that helps:

“Each cycle [of moral outrage] further confounded public understanding of a high-stakes issue and made compromise costlier and less feasible for lawmakers whose constituents demanded nothing less than maximalist partisan stances to appease their anger.”