Antisocial

How did the truth become 'fake news'? How do fringe ideas spread? How did the dark side of the internet propel a candidate many dismissed as a joke to the White House?

To figure out what was happening, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, met some of the entrepreneurs who created social media and learned from them how content goes viral. He spent years embedded with alt-right conspiracists, white supremacists, and trolls, watching how they used this technology to advance their corrosive agenda. He also met some of the people who had been led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization.

Through telling the story of the people who hijacked the American conversation, Antisocial will help you understand the world they have created, in which we all now live.

'Absorbing and disturbing' Observer

'Trenchant and intelligent' New York Times

'Well-paced and shot through with vivid detail and scene . . . Marantz has written what may be the definitive book on the nexus of internet culture and the new far right' Guardian

'So humane and lucid and absorbing and good! Everything in it is a nightmare and I couldn't put it down' Jia Tolentino