Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang

An Ugly Truth (eBook, ePUB)

Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The award-winning insiders' account of the scandals and toxic culture at Facebook-"thorough, high-caliber investigative reporting" ( Kirkus, starred review). In An Ugly Truth, New York Timesreporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang present a behind-the-scenes exposé of Facebook's fall from grace.They reveal explosive details about how the tech giant set out to connect the world-while 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. Facebook's engineers were instructed to create tools that encouraged people to spend as much time on the platform as possible, even if that meant promoting inflammatory rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and partisan filter bubbles. And while consumers and lawmakers were outraged by 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, Frenkel and Kang take readers inside the alliances and rivalries within the company to demonstrate that the company's "missteps" were no such thing-this is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg built Facebook to perform. In An Ugly Truth, they are at last held accountable. A Book of the Year: Fortune, Foreign Affairs, The Times(London), Cosmopolitan, TechCrunch, WIRED

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062960702
• Artikelnr.: 57879212

Autorenporträt

Sheera Frenkel covers cybersecurity from San Francisco. Previously, she spent over a decade in the Middle East as a foreign correspondent, reporting for BuzzFeed, NPR, The Times and McClatchy Newspapers. Cecilia Kang covers technology and regulatory policy out of Washington. She joined the New York Times in 2015 after ten years covering technology and business at the Washington Post.

Rezensionen

[Frenkel and Kang] have produced the ultimate takedown via careful, comprehensive interrogation of every major Facebook scandal. An Ugly Truth provides the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse: it confirms your worst suspicions and then gives you all the dates and details you need to cut through the company's spin. New York Times