Meta / Facebook
Companiessocial-media
Social networking company renamed Meta in 2021, with a literature that turns sharply from founding legend to investigative and whistleblower accounts.
7 books · 2 people behind it
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- The Facebook EffectDavid Kirkpatrick, 2010
- FacebookSteven Levy, 2020
- An Ugly TruthSheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, 2021
The people behind it 2
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Journalists 2
Books 7
T1 Facebook
Steven Levy · 2020 · Subtitled The Inside Story; the fullest institutional history.
David Kirkpatrick · 2010 · The authorised early history, written at peak optimism.
Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang · 2021 · Cambridge Analytica onward; the standard scandal-era account.
Sarah Wynn-Williams · 2025 · Insider memoir by a former director of global public policy.
Antonio Garcia Martinez · 2016 · Insider account of Facebook's ads business by a product manager.
T3 Broken Code
Jeff Horwitz · 2023 · Built on the Facebook Files documents leaked by Frances Haugen.
Ben Mezrich · 2009 · Dramatised founding story; source for The Social Network.