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A review by leech_boyy
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel
dark
informative
medium-paced
5.0
A truly insightful piece of journalism into the inner workings of Facebook and it's inadequacies as a company since its formation. Although changes to its structure have been made, the ignorant harm that Facebook has done in the past is infuriating. And reading this book has helped to emphasise the harm that Facebook has done in increasing the spread of fake news, digital espionage, inciting hate speech and skewing opinions to be more extreme, just to name a few. Moreover, what's worse is that everything was done due to one man's ignorant views over the harm of unregulated viral speech.
While not explicit in the book, the read helped me think more about how social media can be effectively regulated in the currently society we live in, because if anything is evident from Facebook as a case study, it is the fact that we cannot continue letting large social media companies wreak havoc on society at large. This is especially so since a lot of the big decisions that the companies make are made by only a few power hungry executives at the top of the chain of command.
While not explicit in the book, the read helped me think more about how social media can be effectively regulated in the currently society we live in, because if anything is evident from Facebook as a case study, it is the fact that we cannot continue letting large social media companies wreak havoc on society at large. This is especially so since a lot of the big decisions that the companies make are made by only a few power hungry executives at the top of the chain of command.