Andrew Marantz On How Extremist Groups Recruit Using Social Media

Andrew Marantz On How Extremist Groups Recruit Using Social Media

By Chance Seales

By Chance Seales
November 1, 2019

November 1, 2019

In his new book "Antisocial," Andrew Marantz examines how social media and online extremism intertwine.

SHOW TRANSCRIPT

Author and New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz talks about his new book," Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation." He discusses how tech companies, in setting out to connect the world, have facilitated division among certain groups.

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