![]() ![]() ![]() The book summarys show how Facebook thrives on surveillance, gathering data on you to keep you hooked on the site and increasing your value to its advertisers. In this book summary, you’ll learn how Facebook uses manipulative techniques to keep you hooked, and how one side effect is polarizing public debate. And in the absence of effective regulation, it is actively harming our society. It has, in less than two decades, become a crucial part of the public sphere, the platform on which we not only communicate with our friends, but read the news, exchange opinions and debate the news of the day.īut Facebook’s popularity and influence conceal a dark reality: it is lacking in clear moral or civic values to guide it. But more than being popular – and profitable – Facebook is influential. With 2.2 billion users, and revenues that exceeded $40 billion in 2017, it is nothing short of a wild success. Facebook is one of the most wildly popular businesses in history. ![]()
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