NYT Notable Books 2019: 26/100

This was a challenging read days out from the US election. Marantz talks a lot about the connections between the rise of online extremism and the rise of Trump. And the book is five years old, so it doesn't cover things like the creation of Truth Social, or Musk's purchase of Twitter in the name of "free speech." This book is hard to read because I also don't really care to humanize people like the people Marantz talks about. It's well-written, but knowing what I know now, and seeing where we are one day before the US election, I just don't care to give space to people like this, even if it's in the same of research and trying to make sense of how we got to where we are.