✨An Ugly Truth

NXB: Harper Collins Ngôn ngữ: tiếng Anh

MetaPlatform has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users’ data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech.

The company, many said, had simply lost its way. But the truth is far complex. Leadership decisions enabled, and then attempted to deflect attention from, the crises. Time after time, Meta’s engineers were instructed to create tools that encouraged people to spend as much time on the platform as possible, even as those same tools inflammatory rhetoric, and partisan filter bubbles. And while consumers and lawmakers focused their outrage on privacy breaches and misinformation, MetaPlatform solidified its role as the world’s voracious data-mining machine, posting record profits, and shoring up its dominance via aggressive lobbying efforts.