About the Book: Distorted: Anti-social Media, Mistruth and the Fractured Reality
of the Online World
The world is hooked on ultra-processed feeds-engineered diets of outrage,
falsehood and distraction that are reshaping how we think and what we believe.
And like ultra-processed food, they are making us sick-eroding trust, fuelling
tribalism and loosening our grip on truth. Seb Butcher is a technology lawyer
and former advisor to some of the worlds largest companies. In Distorted, he
delivers an eye-opening account of how the modern internet is distorting reality
itself. Drawing on behavioural science, technology, politics and culture,
Butcher reveals the forces behind this distortion-from our own biases