Description: An Ugly Truth : Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Cecilia Kang and.... nce one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories Facebook has been under constant fire for the past rive years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, it Was also mishandling users' data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech. The company, many said, had simply lost its way. But the truth is far more complex. Leadership decisions enabled, and then attempted to deflect attention from, the crises. Time after time, Facebook's engineers were instructed to create tools that encouraged people to spend as much time on the platform as possible, even as those same tools boosted inflammatory rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and partisan filter bubbles. And while consumers and lawmakers focused their outrage on privacy breaches and misinformation Facebook solidified its role as the world's most voracious data-mining machine, posting record profits and shoring up its dominance via aggressive lobbying efforts. Drawing on their unrivaled sources. Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang take readers inside the complex politics, all-ances, and rivalries within the company to shine a light on the fatal cracks in the architecture of the tech behemoth. Their explosive, exclusive reporting led them to a shocking con-clusion: The missteps of the last five years were not an anomaly but an inevitability-this is how Facebook was built to perform. In a period of great upheaval, growth has remained the one constant under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Both have been held up as archetypes of uniquely twenty-first-century executives-he the tech "boy genius" turned billionaire; she the ultimate woman in business, an inspiration to millions through her books and speeches. But sealed off in tight circles of advisers and hobbled by their own ambition and hubris, each has stood by as their technology is coopted by hate-mongers, crim-inals, and corrupt political regimes across the globe, with devastating consequences. In An Ugly Truth, they are at
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Type: Hardback
Book Series: Information
Ex Libris: No
Features: Dust Jacket
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults
Edition: First Edition
Book Title: Ugly Truth : inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Leadership, Political Process / Media & Internet, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects / General, Corporate & Business History
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: Computers, Business & Economics, Political Science
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
