AN UGLY TRUTH

Everyone needs to read this book. To say it is eye-opening would be an understatement. The authors managed to get never-reported emails, memos and white papers from top executives at Facebook. This book delivers a behind the scenes view of how leadership at Facebook made decision after decision to grow at any cost. The result is a crisis affecting billions of us.

The book's name comes from an internal posting written by one of Facebook’s longest-tenured executives, Andrew Bosworth, which he called “The Ugly.” In the memo he wrote: “The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good. That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. And still we connect people.”

An Ugly Truth covers how Facebook, while connecting us, is also mishandling data, amplifying fake news, and spreading hate speech. It's impressively researched, well written and gives an objective point of view. It's not just a juicy read about the mistakes leadership made. This book is a wake up that the controversies surrounding this tech giant are not mistakes at all, they're a product of how Facebook was built to perform...