To report the book, he spent several years embedded with some of the conspiracists, white supremacists and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agendas. Since 2016, Marantz has been at work on a book about the perils of virality, the myth of linear progress and the American far right. Ultimately, Marantz's main interest lies not in any particular subject matter, but in how people form beliefs - and under what circumstances those beliefs can change for the better. Prior to that, he worked on the magazine's editorial staff, splitting his time between writing stories (about such topics as hip-hop purism and the Truman Show delusion) and editing stories (about Las Vegas night clubs, Liberian warlords and many other things). Will they be able to solve the communication crisis they helped bring about, or are their interventions too little too late?Īndrew Marantz writes narrative journalism about politics, the internet and the way we understand our world.Īndrew Marantz became a staff writer at the New Yorker in 2017. Marantz also sits with the creators of social media as they start to reckon with the forces they've unleashed. Marantz shows how alienated young people are led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization, and how fringe ideas spread-from anonymous corners of social media to cable TV to the President's Twitter feed. Combining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding, Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape-the landscape in which we all now live. Antisocial ranges broadly-from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room-and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers"-the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. From a rising star at The New Yorker, 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.įor several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds.
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