Título: An Ugly Truth - Inside Facebook'S Battle for Domination
Autor: Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang
Sinopse: The book Facebook doesn't want you to read Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in an explosive, news-making exposé. In An Ugly Truth, they reveal in vivid detail how under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, one of the most powerful companies in the world tried to deny a damning fact--that Facebook has become a conduit for disinformation, hate speech, and political propaganda--while continuing to relentlessly pursue growth. For the past four years, Facebook has been under constant fire, roiled by cascading 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. Leadership decisions at the company enabled, and then attempted to deflect attention from, massive privacy breaches and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. 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. Each misstep set off a fresh cycle of earnest apologies and glib assurances: We'll do better. Yet these lapses were not accidental, and the apologies ultimately devoid of accountability. The issues surrounding privacy and speech aren't bugs; they are features, baked into the company's DNA--and its algorithms. And while consumers and lawmakers have focused their outrage on privacy breaches and misinformation, Facebook has been consolidating power, devouring competition, posting record profits, and shoring up its dominance via aggressive lobbying efforts. Drawing on their unrivaled sources, Frenkel and Kang take the reader inside the complex court politics, alliances and rivalries within the company, its growing political influence as well as its skirmishes with privacy groups and the FTC, to reveal that the missteps of the last four 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 advisors, increasingly paranoid and critical of outsiders, 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. Acabamento: Paperback. Peso: 452g. Dimensões: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5.
Contexto da obra
Dentro do catálogo, este livro pode ser situado a partir do tema, da autoria e da proposta editorial. “An Ugly Truth – Inside Facebook’S Battle for Domination”, de Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, publicado pela editora Harper Usa, em 2021 e com 352 páginas, integra a categoria Política. Esse enquadramento pode tornar mais clara a proposta do livro e o tipo de interesse que ele costuma despertar.
Editora: Harper Usa
Páginas: 352
Ano: 2021
Edição: 1ª EDIÇÃO
Linguagem: Inglês
ISBN:
ISBN13: 9780063136748
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Os livros da editora HARPER USA oferecem uma experiência de leitura que atravessa temas complexos e variados, do rigor científico à narrativa pessoal, com um tom que ora é investigativo, ora intimista. O catálogo reúne obras que exploram grandes questões humanas, como a saúde global, a sexualidade feminina e a busca por sentido, muitas vezes com um ritmo que equilibra informação detalhada e envolvimento emocional. Há também espaço para histórias de aventura e memórias, onde o cenário histórico e cultural ganha destaque, assim como títulos que dialogam com a cultura pop e questões sociais contemporâneas. Essa diversidade sugere um interesse editorial em obras que desafiam o leitor a repensar conceitos estabelecidos, seja por meio de relatos jornalísticos, biográficos ou ficcionais.
