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Facebook knew it had a problem The company had been humiliated by headlines painted as complicit in the manipulation of democratic voting and an assault on the global social fabric Their stated mission was to connect people but they couldnt afford to destroy society in the process And so they hired a small team to make sure they didnt repeat the same mistakes

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 companys secretive algorithms for the first time and find out what exactly was going wrong

They were successful Too successful The Integrity unit discovered proof that Facebook distorted and amplified the basest of human impulses The company was not merely providing a platform for bad actors but amplifying their power for profit Enduring personal trauma and professional resistance in their often lonely and dark investigations the Integrity team nevertheless isolated many of Facebooks 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

2023 Jeff Horwitz P2023 Penguin Audio