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| AN UGLY TRUTH Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang New York: HarperCollins, July 2021 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN 978-0-06-296067-2 | 333pp. | HC/GSI | $29.99 | |
| Page 51: | "Steve Jobs, who had become a mentor or sorts, taking Zuckerberg on s few long walks in the hills behind Stanford University, encouraged him to see the world." |
| Typo: S/B "a mentor of sorts". |
| Page 124: | "Disclosing that Russia had meddled in the U.S. elections served no purpose for Facebook, but it performed the civic duty of informing the public and potentially protecting other democracies from similar meddling. Facebook's security team had already seen what type of impact they could have in France." |
| Number error: S/B "it". Refers to either "Russia" or "meddling." Each is a singular noun. |
| Page 170: | "The official branches of the Burmese government denied responsibility for the violence..." |
| Terminology: the authors should either follow the military junta's preference (in which case this S/B "the government of Myanmar") or tweak them by using the nation's old name: Burma. |
| Page 171: | "By March 2013, Matt Schissler had grown increasingly worried about the rumors circulating in Yangon." |
| Yangon (formerly Rangoon) is not identified as the largest city in Burma. |
| Page 175: | "Google had its own laboratory for broadband projects, which included hot-air balloons that beamed internet connections to rural areas of the world." |
| These were not hot-air balloons. Alphabet's Project Loon planned helium-filled balloons hovering at high altitudes. The project shut down in 2021. Also, capitalization: S/B "Internet". |
| Page 213: | "Trump was the single-largest spender on political ads on Facebook." |
| Usage: S/B "largest individual". |
| Page 294: | "The decision came at a strange time for Facebook, as the company had recently been cracking down on hate speech in Myanmar, expanding its staff of Burmese-speaking moderators, and working more closely with locals NGOs." |
| Typo: S/B "local". |
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