Summary of Broken Code by Jeff Horwitz: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets

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This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.

Summary of Broken Code by Jeff Horwitz: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets

IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET:

- Chapter astute outline of the main contents.- Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis.- Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original book

Facebook's Broken Code is a behind-the-scenes look at its strategic failures to address its role in the spread of disinformation, political fracturing, and even genocide. The book, filled with eye-popping statistics and anecdotes from insiders, explores Facebook's manipulation tactics and the distorted way we connect online. The book highlights the company's failures to control or understand its own platforms, leading employees to discover deeper issues such as peddling anger, human trafficking, enabling drug cartels and authoritarians, and distorting behavior in ways no one understood. Despite personal trauma and professional setbacks, employees identified the root causes of Facebook's viral harms and drew up concrete plans to address them. The book highlights that the problems spawned by social media cannot be resolved by strapping on a headset.