Broken Code

Resumen del libro

Once the unrivaled titan of social media, Facebook held a singular place in culture and politics. Along with its sister platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, it was a daily destination for billions of users around the world. Inside and outside the company, Facebook extolled its products as bringing people closer together and giving them voice. But in the wake of the 2016 election, even some of the company's own senior executives came to consider those claims pollyannaish and simplistic. As a succession of scandals rocked Facebook, they and the world had to ask whether the company could control, or even understood, its own platforms. Facebook employees set to work in pursuit of answers. They discovered problems that ran far deeper than politics. Facebook was peddling and amplifying anger, looking the other way at human trafficking, enabling drug cartels and authoritarians, allowing VIP users to break the platform's supposedly inviolable rules. They even raised concerns about whether the product was safe for teens. Facebook was distorting behavior in ways no one inside or outside the company understood.

Biografía del autor

JEFF HORWITZ es reportero de tecnología de The Wall Street Journal. Su trabajo en The Facebook Files, del que surge este libro, ganó el premio George Polk de periodismo económico y el Gerald Loeb de periodismo de actualidad. Anteriormente fue reportero de investigación para Associated Press en Washington, DC, y vive en la bahía de San Francisco.