Another quick read... about ten days. This book is a behind-the-scenes expose of the inner workings and manipulative tactics of Facebook and the resulting scandals triggered by their uncontrolled social media platform written by an award winning technology reporter for the Wall Street Journal. The book was a shocking revelation of the efforts made by Facebook leadership to overcome the results of their own employees' studies measuring the cost to users and society of flagrant and disregarded damaging effects including misinformation, political manipulation, amplifying anger, looking the other way at human trafficking, authoritarians, and drug cartels on the platform. People are supposed to believe that Facebook tries to prevent or remove harmful content but the book shows that the company is firmly set on profits first. This also includes Instagram and any product developed by Meta.
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