A review by cdjdhj
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel

4.0

This is a very long and detailed history of Facebook from it's beginning through all of the ups and downs up to and including the January 6 insurrection and Facebook's role in it. Mark Zuckerburg and Sheryl Sandberg do not come out looking good at in this book. It appears that Zuckerburg may know a lot about the internet and technology but next to nothing about human nature, society or democracy. After reading this book, I am glad that I stepped WAY BACK from Facebook when things got really ugly during the Covid pandemic, the 2020 election and its aftermath. I gave the book 4/5 stars because it seemed to be well researched and documented with lots of information from current and former Facebook employees and developers. The way that Facebook was manipulated almost brought our society and democracy to its knees and this book does a good job of documenting that. Important information.