How Social Media Rewired our Brains and our World, with Max Fisher

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🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Sign up for Intelligence Squared Premium here: https://iq2premium.supercast.com/ for ad-free listening, bonus content, early access and much more. See below for details. How does more time spent online result in more havoc and social unrest in the world? In just two decades, social media and its addictive components have changed society in unfathomable ways; how we communicate with one another, how we receive our news, how our societies function and how our societies break down. In this episode Max Fisher, New York Times columnist and author of The Chaos Machine, explores how we have been rewired by algorithms which claim to know us better than we know ourselves. Host for this discussion is technology journalist Chris Stokel-Walker. … We are incredibly grateful for your support. To become an Intelligence Squared Premium subscriber, follow the link: https://iq2premium.supercast.com/ Here’s a reminder of the benefits you’ll receive as a subscriber: Ad-free listening, because we know some of you would prefer to listen without interruption One early episode per week Two bonus episodes per month A 25% discount on IQ2+, our exciting streaming service, where you can watch and take part in events live at home and enjoy watching past events on demand and without ads A 15% discount and priority access to live, in-person events in London, so you won’t miss out on tickets Our premium monthly newsletter Intelligence Squared Merch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.8	Welcome to intelligent squared. I'm Connor Boyle. On today's programme, the New York Times
1:22.2	columnist and reporter Max Fischer joins us to discuss how social media has rewired the world around
1:28.1	us, sometimes for the better and often for the worse. An issue he explores in his new book The
1:33.7	Chaos Machine. Our host today is Chris Stoker Walker, freelance journalist and author of two books
1:44.2	on social media, YouTubers on the rise of YouTube and the creator economy and TikTok boom.
1:50.1	No, not the Andrew Garfield movie, but a book on how the video platform is helping shape the
1:55.0	future of our online lives. Here's Chris with more.
2:03.4	In the past 20 years, social media has changed the world in unfathomable ways. How we communicate
2:08.4	with one another, how we receive our news, how we form opinions, how governments are elected,
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