Ebook: Zucked : waking up to the facebook catastrophe
Author: Roger McNamee
- Tags: Facebook (Electronic resource) -- Social aspects, Zuckerberg Mark -- 1984- -- Influence, Zuckerberg Mark -- 1984-, Facebook (Electronic resource), Online social networks -- Political aspects -- United States, Disinformation -- United States, Propaganda -- Technological innovations, United States -- Politics and government, Disinformation, Influence (Literary artistic etc ), Politics and government, Social aspects, United States
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Penguin Press
- City: Array
- Language: English
- epub
The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.
If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. Until he simply couldn't.
ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. First there is the author's dawning realization that...
If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. Until he simply couldn't.
ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. First there is the author's dawning realization that...
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