Facebook: The Inside Story

The definitive history of Facebook, one of America's most controversial and powerful companies. What began as a simple website created by Mark Zuckerberg as a college sophomore to serve as a campus social network has become nearly unrecognizable from its original form. Today, Facebook is central to national conversation due to recent controversies surrounding election-influencing fake news accounts, the handling of users' personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, who holds enormous power over what the world sees and says. Based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, this narrative documents the company's ascendancy and missteps, including its strategy of growing at all costs, outmaneuvering rivals to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram, and developing a platform so addictive that even some of its own employees have begun to recognize its dangers. The book provides the complete story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.