![]() ![]() Now thoroughly alienated, McNamee digs into the issue. To McNamee's shock, Facebook's leaders continue to duck and dissemble, viewing the matter as a public relations problem. And then comes the election of Donald Trump and a parade of horrific news about Facebook's role in the 2016 election. Then, even more unsettling, he finds that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are politely unwilling to share his concerns. First there is the author's dawning realization that the platform has empowered some very bad actors. ![]() It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. ![]() Zucked is McNamee's insider reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder-or been better for his fund's bottom line-than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. ![]() "If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. ![]()
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