An ugly truth
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The ultimate takedown. New York Times Book Review
Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé that offers the definitive account of Facebooks fall from grace.
Once one of Silicon Valleys greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were 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, Facebooks 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 worlds 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 court politics, alliances 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 conclusion: The missteps of the last five years were not an anomaly but an inevitabilitythis 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 21st century executiveshe 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, criminals and corrupt political regimes across the globe, with devastating consequences. In An Ugly Truth, they are at last held accountable.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 juli 2022
Aantal pagina's: 368
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Sheera Frenkel
Tweede Auteur: Cecilia Kang
Hoofduitgeverij: Collins
Originele titel: An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
AI-gegenereerd: Nee
Product breedte: 134 mm
Product hoogte: 23 mm
Product lengte: 204 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 134 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm
Verpakking lengte: 204 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 249 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9780062960689