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  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241297971

  • Length: 592  Pages

  • RRP: £20.00

Facebook

  • The Inside Story

'A penetrating account of the momentous consequences of a reckless young company with the power to change the world' Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts

How much power and influence does Facebook have over our lives?
How has it changed how we interact with one another?
And what is next for the company - and us?

As the biggest social media network in the world, there's no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in our daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing "fake news" accounts, the handling of its users' personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation.

In this fascinating narrative - crammed with insider interviews, never-before-reported reveals and exclusive details about the company's culture and leadership - award-winning tech reporter Steven Levy tells the story of how Facebook has changed our world and asks what the consequences will be for us all.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241297971

  • Length: 592  Pages

  • RRP: £20.00

Reviews

  • This absorbing book will inspire important conversations about big tech and privacy in the twenty-first century

    Booklist

  • This fascinating book reveals the imperial ambitions of Facebook's founder

    James Marriott, The Sunday Times

  • A tour de force of access journalism

    Natasha Singer, The New York Times

  • Steven Levy is the founding guru of technology journalism

    Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts

  • Levy's narrative is richly detailed, thanks to interviews with Facebookers past and present...His account of Zuckerberg's abbreviated Harvard tenure and Facebook's early years feel fresh, with plenty of colour that reminds you the HBO show Silicon Valley did not have to reach far for its satire

    NPR.org

  • Comprehensive and captivating history

    Wall Street Journal

  • Levy writes with verve... [he] is able to trace the origins of the Cambridge Analytica scheme to Facebook's disregard for the privacy concerns of the first users... He doesn't shy from asking the tough questions

    Washington Post

  • Fresh, up-to-date and insiderish

    The Economist

  • Levy portrays a tech company where no one is taking responsibility for what it has unleashed... The book closes with a recognition that Facebook is bulldozing ahead with new innovations - from Facebook dating to its Libra digital currency project - while Zuckerberg continues to shrug off any ethical queries about his past behaviour

    Financial Times

About the Author

Steven Levy

Steven Levy is Wired's editor at large. The Washington Post has called him 'America's premier technology journalist.' His previous positions include founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book Hackers, which PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.

Steven Levy

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Features

Footnotes: Facebook, The Inside Story by Steven Levy

From Mark Zuckerberg’s armpits to Cambridge Analytica, Steven Levy’s in-depth tell-all on Facebook gives another side to social media.

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