An Ugly Truth - Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

The Everything Store meets Too Big to Fail in this intimate portrayal of the stumbling giant that is Facebook by two New York Times journalists

About the author

Sheera Frenkel covers cybersecurity from San Francisco. Previously, she spent over a decade in the Middle East as a foreign correspondent, reporting for BuzzFeed, NPR, The Times and McClatchy Newspapers.

Cecilia Kang covers technology and regulatory policy out of Washington. She joined the New York Times in 2015 after ten years covering technology and business at the Washington Post.

Summary

The Everything Store meets Too Big to Fail in this intimate portrayal of the stumbling giant that is Facebook by two New York Times journalists

Foreword

The Everything Store meets Too Big to Fail in this intimate portrayal of the stumbling giant that is Facebook by two New York Times journalists

Additional text

Impeccably researched through interviews with the company's present and former employees, investors and even enemies, [An Ugly Truth] examines how the social network is used to spread disinformation and its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential victory.

Product details

• Authors: Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.2021
• EAN: 9781408712719
• ISBN: 978-1-4087-1271-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Language Acts and Worldmaking
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, LAW / Privacy, Business ethics & social responsibility, Information technology industries, Mobile phone technology, Political structures: democracy, Social networking, Social media / social networking, United States of America, USA, Privacy & data protection, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Privacy and data protection, Elections & referenda, Biography: science, technology and medicine, District Of Columbia (Washington, Dc), COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media, COMPUTERS / Internet / Online Safety & Privacy, Privacy law, Elections and referenda