With scrutiny of Big Tech intensifying every single week, an ambitious new book is measuring Facebook's missteps and miseries. As the title indicates, it's not pretty:"An Ugly Truth" is the name of the book , co-authored by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, both of whom report for the NYT. Facebook is, as Kang and Frenkel write, an "unstoppable profit-making machine," affecting all of Earth, from the US to Myanmar. It is Facebook's dilemma and its ugly truth." The Telegraph has an extract from this chapter of the book...-- Facebook security experts were alarmed about FB posts from "domestic extremists" in the run-up to January 6.

Source: CNN July 13, 2021 03:11 UTC