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| BROKEN CODE Inside Facebook and the Fight To Expose its Harmful Secrets Jeff Horwitz New York: Doubleday, July 2023 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-385-54918-9 | ||||
| ISBN 0-385-54918-0 | 330pp. | HC | $32.50 | |
| Page 48: | "Mueller's investigation was just getting underway, and the press was full of stories about.." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 74: | "His effort paid off. In May 2017, Facebook announced it would start demoting clickbait, not because it was misleading, sensational, or scammy, but because users told them that they didn't like things that were misleading, sensational, or spammy." |
| Shift in meaning: S/B "scammy" for consistency. Spam is annoying, but it is not inherently deceitful. |
| Page 251: | "Haugen began building a stable of internal documents..." |
| Word choice: S/B "a collection" or equivalent. |
| Page 282: | "But, by the time the Oversight Board demanded details on the program, Facebook was at least in a position to say that reforms were underway." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 294: | "...the Steele dossier, a collection of salacious but unfounded allegations that Russians had compromised Donald Trump." |
| Inaccurate: as far as I know, some of those allegations have been corroborated. |
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