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A cautionary tale of a few imperfect people making choices for over a billion.
It's a really interesting book and well-written investigatin into how Facebook (more specifically, its top management!!) doesn't give a damn about privacy, especially if it can't earn them money. Unfortunately, I have to give up on this book for now because the rage and disgust I feel for Facebook (and Mark Zuckerberg :) ) during each reading session can't be healthy lol
I read this one while doing the laundry. It was admittedly a little tough to keep my place while I was being tumbled around in the dryer but it saves time in the long run cause this way I don't have to take a shower and I have a fresh OOTD. OOTD stands for outfit of the day I learned from my hip and trendy 29-year-old little cousin/roommate who's on top of all this stuff. He probably spends over 45 minutes looking at Instagram pictures every day. He's also part of the reason I've been looking for shower shortcuts cause he's always in the shower covered in mud and I don't have time to wait for him. He's been in the backyard a lot practicing sucking worms out of the ground cause he says "grub gobbling" is on the precipice of being an Olympic sport. I haven't heard anything about this but I admittedly don't read the newspaper anymore cause my neighbor is the food critic and keeps writing columns about how my cooking sucks even though I don't own a restaurant and accidentally served him a pizza bagel with pupperoni instead of pepperoni at a cookout once. I forgot which pizza bagel was for my dog! This book was good.
Taking a peek under the hood of how Facebook runs their operation isn’t a pretty sight, although not sure that any prior skepticism about the company was little more than more finely crystallized here. Certainly Sandberg comes under worthy and withering criticism as the authors describe her looking the other way on negative or critical feedback, wiping away the veneer of her ‘leaning in’ rhetoric. Some of the more damning allegations are revealed in the coverage of the Myanmar affair where the authors document FB looking away and only responding when their service was cutoff in the country. Besides being a propaganda tool for ethnic cleansing, closer to home it has of course amplified paranoid, delusional hate speech and the book shows how this has been continually brushed aside in the service of keeping the ad revenue flowing: Zuckerberg is of course rightfully singled out for ignoring and inadvertently helping to orchestrate all of this and will hopefully be yet another piece of evidence to break up this cancerous behemoth.
Wow - such a readable and interesting look at Facebook’s internal dynamics during their most fiery years, 2105-2021. I was blown away by the number of sources the two authors referenced, and I’m not sure any other book critical of Facebook can rival their level of internal intel? Their solid journalism of scandal after scandal reinforces how little emphasis Zuckerberg has historically placed on addressing— in a “get to the root of the problem” kind of way— issues of foreign election interference, misinformation, and hate and violence on his platform. You really come away feeling like society is expendable for the sake of Facebook’s bottom line.
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