What’s on Mark’s Mind?: Journalist Sheera Frenkel on the “Ugly Truth” about Facebook
Inside the Hive by Vanity Fair
English - July 30, 2021 15:05 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MB - ★★★★ - 891 ratingsNews Society & Culture interview business entrepreneurship health leadership politics fitness news technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, New York Times reporter Sheera Frenkel, coauthor of the blockbuster book “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination,” describes her and coauthor Cecilia Kang's deep dive into the history and ambitions of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. How and why did Zuck allow his tech behemoth to become a hothouse of hate speech, misinformation and coordinated attacks on world governments? And what has he done about it? Frenkel explains to cohost Joe Hagan how Zuckerberg's pursuit of power has run roughshod over social responsibility, as he cashes in on Kumbaya connectivity instead. With Donald Trump suing Facebook for temporarily evicting him and Joe Biden accusing the platform of “killing people” by spreading vaccine misinformation, Zuckerberg keeps his eyes on the 5 billion customers that remain to be converted to the platform. An in-depth conversation.