Andrew Marantz crafts narrative journalism exploring politics, the internet, and our understanding of the world. His central fascination lies not in specific subjects, but in how people form beliefs and under what conditions those beliefs can evolve for the better. He deeply investigates the perils of virality, the myth of linear progress, and the American far-right, focusing on how extremists leverage social media to advance their corrosive agendas. Marantz's work sheds critical light on the complexities of belief formation and the impact of online culture on society.
Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
From a rising star at The New Yorker comes a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet--and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream.ream.