Max Fisher
@Max_Fisher
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New venture launching Jan 2026. Author of The Chaos Machine, an NPR and New Yorker best book of 2022.
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Joined October 2008
Thrilled by this: NYT call my new book, The Chaos Machine, an "authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media." "Utterly convincing and should obliterate any doubts about the significance of algorithmic intervention in human affairs"
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Max Fisher’s “The Chaos Machine” examines the psychological impacts of technology.
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Is "fight club" the right reference here? It's really more of a “social network” so they can say “gone girl” to Schumer for hiding in an establishment “panic room” rather than playing “the game”
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, and Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club." The group is challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing they're using an old, corporate-friendly playbook. https://t.co/9ztmM47jfg
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WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
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lol. he’s talking about CAA, the talent agency, whose offices are across the street from the mall. Theo Von is the perfect encapsulation of a conspiracy podcaster, just a moron all the way through
Theo Von tells Joe Rogan: "I remember one day I was walking in the Century City Mall in LA, and there was a blue collar guy walking around...he was working contruction... we were talking for a minute I said 'what are y'all building?' He said, we're building 20 floor building, 10
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did i stutter
"working on a five year retrospective of the '30-50 feral hogs' moment for iheartradio"
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Gathering wide information about a complicated subject is hard. So is organizing it into a coherent narrative. Learning you made a mistake is every journalist's worst nightmare. Karen Hao is a credit to the profession at a time when so many are ready to sell it out for a buck.
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nothing makes me feel more like we're returning to "normal politics" than stories from WH aides planning to go on the road to sell the president's agenda because his approval rating is in the toilet.
This is the odd thing: A ton of money and planning goes into these presidential on-the-road speeches. Seating arrangements, who's onstage, show up 5 hours early for security. And maybe, MAYBE, you'll see a short clip of a gaffe from them as you scroll.
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Boy you wonder if Texas and North Carolina Republicans will regret gerrymandering their states into wall-to-wall +5 Trump districts
VA Democrats unseated a 36-yr incumbent who represents a Trump +8.5 county tonight.
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Result after result like this. A +9.4D swing over Kamala in 2024, in a county that was a bellwether for that year's national secular shift toward Trump.
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Having interviewed a number of people in my day facing persecution for political speech, at a time when thousands are held in legal limbo without due process, her reaction seemed pretty polite and reasonable to me!
I just had a Katie Porter moment with congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh. The interview lasted 3 minutes.
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This is not a good sign.
👀A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal
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This will get quietly passed over but it's an incredibly significant moment. They do not consider Democratic representatives or their voters to be legitimate participants in our politics. They want a single-party state in place of democracy and are making it so, piece by piece.
This briefing is SOLELY for GOP senators, I’m told. Comes as some Republicans have publicly taken issue with the lack of information coming from the Trump administration on the escalating strikes.
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🚨HUGE moment. ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Greg Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey
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The Orbanization of the U.S. media is happening in plain sight, with the president using regulatory power to direct the sales of news outlets to his wealthy allies.
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its crazy that our whole economy now is seven different guys in silicon valley each trying really hard not to be the first to run out of stock-pumping schemes
Breaking News: Meta plans to cut roughly 600 jobs in its artificial intelligence division, the company told employees. The news comes on the heels of an A.I. hiring spree.
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Personnel is policy (the policy is gearing up to subvert elections). https://t.co/Fbih22cgd2
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one of those east coast media bias stories. if new jersey shut down 95 after the military wanted to fire artillery over the highway despite safety concerns from the governor and then some of it accidentally blew up, i think it'd be a bigger story.
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail
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