Zucked

Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

352 pages

English language

Published Dec. 21, 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-00-831901-4
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4 stars

There are lots of good quotable areas of the book. I found myself wanting to post screenshots of quotes to social media (ironically) but got to the point where I was thinking, "At that point I'd be posting the whole book." There is even some good decomposition of the problem generally, which is beyond Facebook, and some solutions from a regulatory and personal behavior perspective. However it did need a bit more of a judicious editor. There is a lot of repetition through the various chapters. The quotability I write about waned as the book went on because the same point was being made over and over, in some cases nearly verbatim. It is still a worthy read on what ails us from an insider's perspective with respect to social media, modern big tech, etc.

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Subjects

  • Facebook (electronic resource)
  • Online social networks
  • Propaganda
  • United states, politics and government
  • Technology and civilization
  • Internet, social aspects
  • Technology, social aspects