Broken code : inside Facebook and the fight to expose its toxic secrets
Horwitz, Jeff (Journalist)2024
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From the Wall Street Journal reporter whose explosive stories have rocked Facebook and its leadership, this is the story of the Civic Integrity Team: a select band of engineers, coders, economists, and experts hired to peer inside the company's secretive algorithms for the first time and find out what exactly was going wrong. They were successful. Too successful. Enduring personal trauma and professional resistance in their often lonely and dark investigations, the Integrity team nevertheless isolated many of Facebook's worst problems, complete with tentative and hopeful steps to solve them - only to discover that they were set up to fail, and would have to take matters into their own hands.
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Author:
Horwitz, Jeff (Journalist), author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2024.
Collation:
336 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781804995778 (pbk)
Dewey class:
302.30285302.3302.3028
LC class:
HM743.F33
Local class:
302.302
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4002026