Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the fight to expose its toxic secrets

Facebook had a problem with its platforms,peddling and amplifying anger, enabling drug cartels and authoritarians, and allowing VIP users to break the rules. Employees offered solutions, but their work was delayed, watered down, or stifled by a company that valued user engagement above all else.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Facebook, one of the world's most significant companies, has been the subject of a penetrating portrait by Ronan Farrow, author of "Catch and Kill." In his book, "The Four," bestselling author Scott Galloway explores the inner workings of Facebook and its impact on society.

Facebook faced a problem in 2016, as a succession of scandals rocked its sister platforms Instagram and WhatsApp. Some began to question whether the company could control or even understand its own platforms.

As Facebook employees searched for answers, they uncovered a more profound problem than they could have imagined. The problems ran far deeper than politics. Facebook was peddling and amplifying anger, looking the other way at human trafficking, enabling drug cartels and authoritarians, and allowing VIP users to break the platform's supposedly inviolable rules.

It turned out to be eminently possible to isolate many of Facebook's worst problems, but whenever employees offered solutions, their work was consistently delayed, watered down, or stifled by a company that valued user engagement above all else. The only option left was to blow the whistle.

In "Broken Code," award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz tells the riveting inside story of these employees and their explosive discoveries, uncovering the shocking cost of Facebook's blind ambition in the process.

Weight: 542g
Dimension: 163 x 244 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781911709022