FOLLOWING HUGE SUCCESS OF HARDBACK: The first edition received wide-ranging acclaim and featured in
The Times and the
Telegraph and was reviewed in broadsheets and technology publications and online media
EXCLUSIVE ACCESS: Steven Levy is one of only a handful of journalists with direct access to Mark Zuckerberg and his senior leadership team as well as ex-Facebook employees
FULL STORY: The first comprehensive look at Facebook's inception through to it's much-changed modern existence including the company's controversial role in the US election and the Cambridge Analytica scandal
HUGE PLATFORM: Steven Levy is the leading technology journalist in Silicon Valley. He has a social media platform of over 108K followers on Twitter and is a frequent contributor to
Wired Magazine
FOR READERS OF: For readers of Brad Stone's
The Upstarts (25k TCM) and Antonio García Martínez's
Chaos MonkeysSteven Levy is
Wired's editor at large.
The Washington Post has called him 'America's premier technology journalist.' His previous positions include founder of
Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for
Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for
Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and
Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book
Hackers, which
PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for
Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
Steven Levy is
Wired's editor at large.
The Washington Post has called him 'America's premier technology journalist.' His previous positions include founder of
Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for
Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for
Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and
Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book
Hackers, which
PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for
Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
Steven Levy is
Wired's editor at large.
The Washington Post has called him 'America's premier technology journalist.' His previous positions include founder of
Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for
Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for
Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and
Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book
Hackers, which
PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for
Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
This absorbing book will inspire important conversations about big tech and privacy in the twenty-first centuryThis fascinating book reveals the imperial ambitions of Facebook's founderA tour de force of access journalismSteven Levy is the founding guru of technology journalismLevy's narrative is richly detailed, thanks to interviews with Facebookers past and present...His account of Zuckerberg's abbreviated Harvard tenure and Facebook's early years feel fresh, with plenty of colour that reminds you the HBO show Silicon Valley did not have to reach far for its satire
Comprehensive and captivating history
Levy writes with verve... [he] is able to trace the origins of the Cambridge Analytica scheme to Facebook's disregard for the privacy concerns of the first users... He doesn't shy from asking the tough questions
Fresh, up-to-date and insiderish Levy portrays a tech company where no one is taking responsibility for what it has unleashed... The book closes with a recognition that Facebook is bulldozing ahead with new innovations - from Facebook dating to its Libra digital currency project - while Zuckerberg continues to shrug off any ethical queries about his past behaviour
'Levy portrays a tech company where no one is taking responsibility for what it has unleashed' Financial Times
'This fascinating book reveals the imperial ambitions of Facebook's founder' James Marriott, Sunday Times
'The inside story of how Facebook went from idealism to scandal' Laurence Dodds, Telegraph
Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from the simple website Zuckerberg's first built from his dorm room in his Sophomore year. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the biggest companies in the world, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost 3 billion users. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing fake news accounts, the handling of its users' personal data and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation.
Based on years of exclusive reporting and interviews with Facebook's key executives and employees, including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Steven Levy's sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
