Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, with Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
History & Social Policy • 59m
The New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang see Facebook's missteps in the last five years not as an anomaly but an inevitability: this is how the platform was built to perform. In a period of great upheaval, growth has remained the single focus of Zuckerberg and his COO Sheryl Sandberg.
In July 2021 Frenkel and Kang came to Intelligence Squared to share the revelations of their new book An Ugly Truth. Drawing on unrivaled sources, Frenkel and Kang gave us an unprecedented view inside the politics, alliances and rivalries within one of the most powerful companies in the world.
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