From WSJbooks: Is Facebook making the world a better place, as the company contends, or is it doing harm, by addicting us to manipulative clickbait and amplifying poisonous voices? As StevenLevy explains in “Facebook: The Inside Story,” it’s complicated.
There are 7.8 billion people on planet Earth. Over a third of them use the Facebook platform each month and around 2.3 billion use at least one of Facebook’s services each day, according to the company’s most recent earnings call.
By serving as the fabric connecting billions of users and delivering so much content that they “Like,” is Facebook making the world a better place, as the company contends, or is it doing harm, by addicting us to manipulative clickbait while amplifying poisonous voices and invading our privacy? As veteran technology journalist Steven Levy explains in “Facebook: The Inside Story,” it’s complicated.
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