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An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination [calibre 4.99.5]
- Автор: Frenkel Sheera, Kang Cecilia
- Год: 2021
- Язык: английский
- Год: HARPERCOLLINS
- ISBN: 9780062960672
- Жанр: Прочая деловая литература
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**Award-winning *New York Times* reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé 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 inevitability—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 executives—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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19. George Soros delivered a speech: “Remarks Delivered at the World Economic Forum,” George Soros website, January 25, 2018.
20. Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian activist: “Organizer of ‘Revolution 2.0’ Wants to Meet Mark Zuckerberg,” NBC Bay Area website, February 11, 2011.
21. Sandberg responded defensively: “Sheryl Sandberg Pushes Women to ‘Lean In’,” 60 Minutes, CBS, March 10, 2013, can be viewed on YouTube.
22. “People come to a social movement from the bottom up”: Maureen Dowd, “Pompom Girl for Feminism,” New York Times, February 24, 2013.
23. Dick Durbin and Marco Rubio: Jack Turman, “Lawmakers Call on Facebook to Testify on Cambridge Analytica Misuse,” CBS News online, March 21, 2018.
24. The platform’s powerful tracking tools: Julia Angwin and Terry Parris, Jr., “Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race,” ProPublica, October 28, 2016.
25. An advertiser could target users by: Natasha Singer, “What You Don’t Know about How Facebook Uses Your Data,” New York Times, April 11, 2018.
26. he never saw “a single audit of a developer”: Sandy Parakilas, “Opinion: I Worked at Facebook. I Know How Cambridge Analytica Could Have Happened,” Washington Post, March 20, 2018.
27. Kaplan had built a formidable DC team: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2018&id=D000033563.
28. “Lawmakers seem confused about what Facebook does”: Emily Stewart, “Lawmakers Seem Confused about What Facebook Does—and How to Fix It,” Vox, April 10, 2018.
29. The hearings would become fodder: Laura Bradley, “Was Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate Hearing the ‘Worst Punishment of All?’,” Vanity Fair, April 11, 2018.
30. Over ten hours of testimony: Zach Wichter, “2 Days, 10 Hours, 600 Questions: What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Went to Washington,” New York Times, April 12, 2018.
31. Zuckerberg had added three billion dollars: Natasha Bach, “Mark Zuckerberg’s Net Worth Skyrocketed $3 Billion during His Senate Testimony and Could Rise Again Today,” Fortune, April 11, 2018.
Chapter 9: Think Before You Share
1. Social media had played a “determining role”: Tom Miles, “U.N. Investigators Cite Facebook Role in Myanmar Crisis,” Reuters, March 12, 2018.
2. Sandberg would sit before: Open Hearing on Foreign Influence Operations’ Use of Social Media Platforms (Company Witnesses): Hearing before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, September 5, 2018. Video can be viewed on https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/ website.
3. Cell phone costs plummeted: Michael Tan, “Tech Makes Inroads in Myanmar,” CNET, July 6, 2014.
4. Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk whose anti-Muslim positions: Shashank Bengali, “Monk Dubbed ‘Buddhist Bin Laden’ Targets Myanmar’s Persecuted Muslims,” Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2015.
5. The post was titled: Mark Zuckerberg, “Is Connectivity a Human Right,” Facebook blog post, August 21, 2013.
6. meeting with President Xi Jinping twice in 2015: Jane Perlez, “A Chat in Chinese with Mark Zuckerberg, as Tech Giants Jostle for Face Time,” New York Times, September 24, 2015.
7. “Whenever any technology or innovation comes along”: Lev Grossman, “Inside Facebook’s Plan to Wire the World,” Time, December 15, 2014.
8. Two people were killed, and fourteen were injured: Tim Hume, “Curfew Imposed after Deadly Clashes between Buddhists, Muslims in Myanmar, CNN website, July 6, 2014.
9. “Facebook Treats You Like a Lab Rat”: David Goldman, “Facebook Treats You Like a Lab Rat,” CNN website, June 30, 2014.
10. In June 2015, Facebook announced a change to the News Feed: Anisha Yu and Sami Tas, “Taking Into Account Time Spent on Stories,” Facebook blog post, June 12, 2015.
11. Facebook took down the posts: Paul Mozur, “A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts from Myanmar’s Military,” New York Times, October 15, 2018.
12. Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar: United Nations General Assembly, “Resolution Adopted by the Human Rights Council on 27 September 2018,” https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/RES/39/2.
Chapter 10: The Wartime Leader
1. She reminded everyone of the company’s mission statement: Josh Constine, “Facebook Changes Mission Statement to ‘Bring the World Closer Together,’” TechCrunch, June 22, 2017.
2. “Peacetime CEO works to minimize”: Ben Horowitz, “Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO,” blog post on a16z website, April 14, 2011.
3. In public speeches and interviews: Ben Horowitz, “Ben Horowitz on the Lessons He Learned from Intel’s Andy Grove,” March 22, 2016, Bloomberg interview can be accessed on Youtube.
4. came on the heels of a major reorganization: Kurt Wagner, “Facebook Is Making its Biggest Executive Shuffle in Company History,” Vox, May 8, 2018.
5. Jan Koum, the cofounder of WhatsApp: Elizabeth Dwoskin, “WhatsApp Founder Plans to Leave after Broad Clashes with Parent Facebook,” Washington Post, April 30, 2018.
6. Zuckerberg had broken his promise: State of New York et al. v. Facebook.
7. Kevin Systrom, the cofounder of Instagram: Sarah Frier, “Instagram Founders Depart Facebook after Clashes with Zuckerberg,” Bloomberg, September 24, 2018.
8. It was “really cool for identifying acquisition targets”: State of New York et al. v. Facebook.
9. Seated just one row back: Mike Isaac, “Rifts Break Open at Facebook over Kavanaugh Hearing,” New York Times, October 4, 2018.
10. The figures on diversity at Facebook were only inching forward: Maxine Williams, “Facebook 2018 Diversity Report: Reflecting on Our Journey,” Facebook blog post, July 12, 2018.
11. As Swisher grilled him about the controversy: Dan Nosowitz, “Mark Zuckerberg Gives Awkward, Sweaty Interview at D8: Touches on Privacy and Scandal,” Fast Company, June 3, 2010.
12. Alex Jones and his conspiracy-laden site: Hadley Freeman, “Sandy Hook Father Leonard Pozner on Death Threats: ‘I Never Imagined I’d Have to Fight for My Child’s Legacy,’” Guardian, May 2, 2017.
13. Swisher pressed Zuckerberg: Kara Swisher, “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Recode Decode,” July 18, 2018, podcast interview and transcript can be accessed on the Vox website.
14. Zuckerberg tried to clarify his comments: Kara Swisher, “Mark Zuckerberg Clarifies: ‘I Personally Find Holocaust Denial Deply Offensive, and I Absolutely Didn’t Intend to Defend the Intent of People Who Deny That’,” Vox, July 18, 2018.
15. He had floated the idea of an outside paneclass="underline" Casey Newton, “Facebook Wants a Social Media Supreme Court So It Can Avoid Hard Questions,” The Verge, April 3, 2018.
16. election interference as an “arms race”: “Removing Bad Actors on Facebook,” Facebook blog post, July 31, 2018.
17. as well as a campaign of hundreds: Sheera Frenkel and Nicholas Fandos, “Facebook Identifies New Influence Operations Spanning Globe,” New York Times, August 21, 2018.
18. On November 14, 2018, the piece: Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg, and Jack Nicas, “Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought through Crisis,” New York Times, November 14, 2018.