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In An Ugly Truth (2021), Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang document Facebook’s ongoing battles and fight for domination. They reveal how the biggest social media network worldwide played a role in the Myanmar genocide and other horrific events, facilitated foreign interference in the 2016 US election, allowed access to private data without users’ consent, and shared their information with other apps.

It is true that Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant has positively contributed to societies and communities in various ways, but Facebook has constantly faced challenges and caused controversies due to its privacy abuse and lack of misinformation censorship. Many opponents have tried to take it down over the years, yet Zuckerberg never fails to give his business the right push to rise and thrive again.