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" INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The ultimate takedown. 8211New York Times Book ReviewAward-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes expos233 that offers the definitive account of Facebook's fall from grace . Once one of Silicon Valley's 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, 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 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 inevitability8212 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 21st century executives8212 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, 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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Biographisches: " Sheera Frenkel covers cybersecurity from San Francisco for the New York Times . Previously, she spent over a decade in the Middle East as a foreign correspondent, reporting for BuzzFeed, NPR, the Times of London and McClatchy Newspapers. Based in Washington, DC, Cecilia Kang covers technology and regulatory policy for the New York Times. Before joining the paper in 2015, she reported on technology and business for the Washington Post for ten years. Frenkel and Kang were part of the team of investigative journalists recognized as 2019 Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. The team also won the George Polk Award for National Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative Reporting. " Rezension(2): "New York Times Book Review:Frenkel and Kang faced the challenge of unearthing new and interesting material about one of the most heavily debated communication tools of our modern age. More than 400 interviews later, they've 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 By weaving all those threads together, and adding new reporting from high-level meetings in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., the authors manage to effectively examine the shortcomings in the company's leadership, structure and accountability. The book connects the internal drama and decision-making at Facebook with what we have all experienced on the outside." Rezension(3): "Washington Post:Fascinating Adds a trove of rich detail that will be important in the ongoing assessment of social media's impact on society and democracy." Rezension(4): "Morning Joe:There's so much new reporting in this book, a story we thought we understood fully. It turns out there is much more to it." Rezension(5): "Kara Swisher:A great book. Everybody should read it." Rezension(6): "Jake Tapper:Stunning revelations Damning new details Fantastic." Rezension(7): "Associated Press:An Ugly Truth build[s] a compelling case that Facebook has grown far past its origins ... into a delivery system perfectly suited for the propagation of extremist views and outright untruths Frenkel and Kang offer a compelling argument that in the interest of preserving democracy, we must take steps to purge Facebook of outright falsehoods, hate and disinformation now." Rezension(8): "Casey Newton, The Verge:Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang detail the company's dawning awareness of the foreign adversaries in their midst. By the time it's all over, Donald Trump will be president, and Facebook's halting response triggers an international reckoning over the size and power of technology platformsThe broad outlines of this story are well known The value in An Ugly Truth comes from the detail it brings to the Russia investigation as it was experienced by some of its participants at the time The book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. (And, of course, for anyone else like me who is fascinated by Facebook history.)" Rezension(9): "Publishers Weekly, starred review:New York Times reporters Frenkel and Kang debut with a paragon of investigative journalism in this insiders' account of the scandals and toxic culture at social media giant FacebookA work of impeccable research and relentless reporting." Rezension(10): "New Statesman:A detailed dismantling of what happened at the highest levels of the company as it pursued a policy of deny, deflect and obfuscate." Rezension(11): "Business Insider, Recommended Read:Takes readers behind the scenes." Rezension(12): "The Forward:In Kang and Frenkel's lucid account we get to hear the step-by-step details of the energy and incompetence of the world's biggest influencer and the American government's utter inability to regulate its grotesque excesses [A] meticulous history of Facebook 8212" Rezension(13): "The Guardian:Russian hacking, smear campaigns and livestreamed massacres are the price of Mark Zuckerberg's quest for connectivity, grippingly probed by two New York Times journalists Better sourced than all of its predecessors in the genre Splendid." Rezension(14): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from August 2, 2021 New York Times reporters Frenkel and Kang debut with a paragon of investigative journalism in this insiders’ account of the scandals and toxic culture at social media giant Facebook. Compiling interviews with former and current employees as well as investors, regulators, and lawmakers, the authors offer an unvarnished view of the company’s callous business practices, most notably the exploitation of users’ data, their “merciless” overthrows of competitors, and the “powerful monopoly” that resulted. They recap headline-grabbing events such as the discovery of Russian hackers’ use of the platform and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Less familiar (and more riveting) anecdotes include a contract employee leaking a memo to the press, who was then caught by Facebook’s “rat catcher,” Sonya Ahuja, and fired, and former vice president of global communications Elliot Schrage threatening a representative from Common Sense Media who was concerned about protecting children from the potential harms of social media. And though CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg refused to be interviewed, both come vividly to life, the latter a “master manager” and advertising guru, the former an operator who’s affable in public and ruthless behind the scenes. The result is a work of impeccable research and relentless reporting."
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