How Facebook has become one of the least trusted and most profitable companies in the world.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Tech journalist Steven Levy, talks about the company’s history on Fresh Air. He’s got a new book out, “Facebook: The Inside Story,” based on interviews with Zuckerberg, other top current and former Facebook execs – some of whom share their misgivings about the company – and Facebook critics.
I’m hooked on Facebook, yet I have strong misgivings about it. Living in the world requires compromising principles, and some of those compromises are appalling. And yet every day I wonder whether using Facebook is a compromise too far.