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

The author amasses sufficient evidence to show that the leadership of the largest social media companies are aware of the negative consequences of their platform's algorithms, but choose not to act because it would affect profits. Unless the federal government acts through its regulatory agencies to curtail the pernicious effect these algorithms have on our democracy, we will suffer the consequences.