Facebook: The Inside Story

Wired's editor in chief is Steven Levy. According to the Washington Post, he is "America's finest technology journalist." His past roles include founding Backchannel and serving as Newsweek's top technology reporter and senior editor. Levy has previously published work in Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Premiere.

As a sophomore in college, Mark Zuckerberg built a rudimentary website to act as a campus social network.

Today, Facebook is almost unrecognizable from its humble beginnings. With recent controversies involving election-influencing "fake news" accounts, the handling of its users' personal data, and growing dissatisfaction with the actions of its founder and CEO—who wields enormous power over what the world sees and says—never before has a company been more central to the national conversation.

Millions of words have been written on Facebook, but no one has described the full story of its rise and fall. There is no denying Facebook's power and omnipresence in American daily life, or the importance of this book in documenting the company's unchecked power and shocking techniques, from growing at all costs to outmaneuvering its biggest rivals to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram, to developing a platform so addictive that even some of its own are now realizing its dangers.

Facebook: The Inside Story- Levy's sweeping narrative of great entrepreneurial success and failure, based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, delves deep into the entire story of the corporation that has revolutionized the world and reaped the consequences.

Author: Steven Levy

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0735213151/

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