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Joining us on the communicators is Andrew Marantz, a writer for the new yorker and the author of the book, easy social online extremist in the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having. The book grew out of reporting that you do for the new yorker, can you excite network and how it led to the genesis of the book . Guest around 2014, 2015 i was writing for the new yorker and its a magazine that allows people to roam and be generalists and go wherever they find interesting stories and something that i was finding interesting at the time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt political, and my mind at that time, it was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know what is true or important versus irrelevant or how to spend their time and so i was looking at this as a tech story and a business story and i was looking
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Extremists and the hijacking of the american conversation. And theoutopians, hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thank you for joining us. If i understand it correctly, the book grew out of reporting that you do for the new yorker. Can you explain that work and how it led to the genesis of the book . Andrew yes, so around 2014, 2015, i was writing for the new yorker. And you know, its a magazine that allows people to kind of roam and be generalists and sort of go wherever they find interesting stories. And something that i was finding interesting at the time was what the internet was doing to us as a society, in terms of our information streams. It wasnt really political in my mind at that time. It was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information break down and people no longer know whats true or whats important vs. Irrelevant or how to spend their time . And so, i was looking at this as a tech story, as a business story. I was looking at click