Summary of Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang's An Ugly Truth

Get the Summary of Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang's An Ugly Truth in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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.

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Ebook: 12 October 2021