i don t know. i feel bad for the athletes in a way. hopefully it won t bother them. maybe less distractions. bill: it doesn t matter to me, either. dana: glad we agree. bill: bombshell report from a pair of new york times reporters. they claim 52 facebook employees were caught spying on users during their time when they worked with the company including on women that they were romantically interested in. an excerpt from the book says the employees were fired but little else at the company has changed. carley shimkus runs down the story. hello to you. this is creepy and concerning. bill: what s the story? people need to know it happened. let s hope it is not still happening. according to a book that is set to come out called an ugly truth 52 facebook employees were fired in 2014 and 2015 for essentially using the information that they had as engineers to spy on people and
would come in. there s nobody that has oversight over the most powerful person in the company, mark zuckerberg. it s unusual in that mark zuckerberg has so much decision over the stock. when a court threw out the lawsuit, an anti-trust lawsuit, the company s stock soared and the company was valued at $1 trillion after that news break. it turns out there s much more to the story than we knew about, inside the book an ugly truth . thank you both and congratulations on the book. thank you. gene, they were talking about how facebook would talk about all they were up against in trying to chase down all these extremists online. what they re up against is an algorithm, what they re up against is a frankenstein
reporters who are out with a new book today titled an ugly truth, inside facebook s battle for domination . congratulations. we were talking about there have been so many books written about facebook, what else can you say? but turns out there was a lot in your book. we can talk about the insurrection of january 6th, the attack on the capitol and how much of that poison, how many of those conspiracy theories collected and gathered steam on facebook. and as you both write in the book, this is a feature of facebook that the platform is effectively created to get people engaged at whatever cost. absolutely. we could see for months leading up to january 6th that movements that called themselves stop the steal were spreading this emotive content, designed to misinform people and tell them the election was stolen from
i m able to remember things. i d say give it a try. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. a new book about facebook is causing major headaches for the social media giant. with new claims about the company, leaders and its impact across the country. the book called an ugly truth by new york times reporter shira frankel comes out tomorrow. and in it frankel and kang good a look at the company by speaking to over 400 employees. they allege that facebook founder mark zuckerberg believed in growth at any cost. and that meant allowing donald trump to make false and inflammatory claims on the site. nbc s jake ward spoke with the authors of the new exclusively. jake, behind the scenes mark zuckerberg was happy to host trump and 30 million followers. st so what more did the authors