An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

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Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang Once one of Silicon Valley’s most facebook database successful companies, Facebook is now the subject of constant controversy. Management has encouraged crises through its decisions and policies, then sought to deflect attention from them while consolidating its role as a data-mining machine and posting record profits. Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang expose the cracks in the Facebook machine, arguing that the missteps of recent years are not an anomaly but an inevitability that must be held accountable.


An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination - Frenkel, Sheera, Kang, Cecilia: Books I saw the monster being born – Will Twitter kill #democracy?, Samuel Laurent Samuel Laurent began his career as a journalist just as Twitter was being created. He witnessed its development and was one of the first journalists on the platform, those from the Web who came together and discovered new professional practices and opportunities. But Samuel Laurent experienced a setback. In his book, he provides both a testimony and an analysis of what Twitter has become.