Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Online provocateurs and the alt-right exploit social media algorithms to spread misinformation
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg famously said, “Move fast and break things.” Well, he moved fast and created a social network that now has about 2.5 billion users around the world.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg famously said, “Move fast and break things.” Well, he moved fast and created a social network that now has about 2.5 billion users around the world. Some things got broken along the way, such as the truth.
The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz says Zuckerberg and other well-intentioned social media pioneers thought they could make the world a better place by connecting us. But instead, they built systems that empower propagandists, bigots, and trolls to spread hate from the dark corners of the internet all the way up to the White House.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Line Editor, Press Play
Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir
Associate producer
Andrew Marantz
staff Writer at the New Yorker and author of “Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the HIjacking of the American Conversation”