I Read It So You Don’t Have To

I Read It So You Don’t Have To: ‘An Ugly Truth’

A pair of New York Times reporters offer an inside look at Facebook’s (mis)handling of its litany of scandals

Kaushik Viswanath
Marker
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6 min readAug 9, 2021

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I Read It So You Don’t Have To is a series that gives you the TL;DR on a business book you want to read — but don’t have time to.

What did I read?

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang.

So who are Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang?

They’re a pair of investigative technology reporters at The New York Times, based out of San Francisco and D.C., respectively, whose distinctions include being finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and winners of the George Polk Award in recognition of their reporting on the social media giants.

Give me the 30-second sell.

An Ugly Truth is the latest in a long line of books that have narrated the story of the success — and missteps — of Mark Zuckerberg and his social media giant, from Ben Mezrich’s 2009 account The Accidental Billionaires (adapted by Aaron Sorkin into The Social Network), to Steven…

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Kaushik Viswanath
Marker

Previously: Creators & Marker @Medium and business books at Penguin Random House.