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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Max Fisher: Social Media and the Havoc on Our Minds
Description: Do we really understand the reach and impact that social media has on our lives? We all have a vague sense that social media can be bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. Yet that doesn't stop us from constantly using it.New York Times investigative reporter Max Fisher looks at how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions.Fisher tracks the evolution of free speech to hate speech and its spillover into violence—that first festered in far-off locales to the...