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Broken code : inside Facebook and the fight to expose its harmful secrets [large print] / by Horwitz, Jeff(Journalist),author.(CARDINAL)878765;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-515)."A behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out." --

Subjects: Large print books.; Facebook (Firm); Facebook (Firm); Social media; Social media.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Broken code : inside Facebook and the fight to expose its harmful secrets / by Horwitz, Jeff(Journalist),author.(CARDINAL)878765;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-330).Once the unrivaled titan of social media, Facebook held a singular place in culture and politics. Along with its sister platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, it was a daily destination for billions of users around the world. Inside and outside the company, Facebook extolled its products as bringing people closer together and giving them voice. But in the wake of the 2016 election, even some of the company’s own senior executives came to consider those claims pollyannaish and simplistic. As a succession of scandals rocked Facebook, they—and the world—had to ask whether the company could control, or even understood, its own platforms. Facebook employees set to work in pursuit of answers. They discovered problems that ran far deeper than politics. Facebook was peddling and amplifying anger, looking the other way at human trafficking, enabling drug cartels and authoritarians, allowing VIP users to break the platform’s supposedly inviolable rules. They even raised concerns about whether the product was safe for teens. Facebook was distorting behavior in ways no one inside or outside the company understood. Enduring personal trauma and professional setbacks, employees successfully identified the root causes of Facebook’s viral harms and drew up concrete plans to address them. But the costs of fixing the platform—often measured in tenths of a percent of user engagement—were higher than Facebook’s leadership was willing to pay. With their work consistently delayed, watered down, or stifled, those who best understood Facebook’s damaging effect on users were left with a choice: to keep silent or go against their employer. Broken Code tells the story of these employees and their explosive discoveries. Expanding on "The Facebook Files," his blockbuster, award-winning series for The Wall Street Journal, reporter Jeff Horwitz lays out in sobering detail not just the architecture of Facebook’s failures, but what the company knew (and often disregarded) about its societal impact. In 2021, the company would rebrand itself Meta, promoting a techno-utopian wonderland. But as Broken Code shows, the problems spawned around the globe by social media can’t be resolved by strapping on a headset.

Subjects: Facebook (Firm); Facebook (Firm); Social media; Social media.;

Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 17

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Every screen on the planet : the war over TikTok / by Baker-White, Emily,author.;

"The story of the most effective attention algorithm ever invented, and the superpower struggle to control it. Every Screen on the Planet is the first major book on one of the most dramatic business stories of our time. Touching on politics, finance, data, and technology, the struggle over TikTok has enormous implications for our information landscape and the technological cold war between the United States and China. Emily Baker-White’s engrossing narrative charts TikTok’s rise from obscurity into the world’s most valuable startup, led by its ambitious founder, Zhang Yiming—arguably the father of the modern recommendation algorithm. Zhang’s products reshaped the global internet from a place where you searched for information to one where information came to you. TikTok seemed to know its users in an almost spooky way, provoking wonder and delight. People were hooked. “We intend to become ubiquitous,” a new-hire training video said, to put TikTok “on every screen on the planet." But virtually everything about TikTok’s users—their interests, locations, and even their unspoken desires—was accessible to staff in Beijing. After Baker-White, a Harvard-trained lawyer and investigative reporter, revealed that Chinese engineers could access Americans’ private information, a team of employees used the app to track her location and attempt to expose whistleblowers. This incident triggered an ongoing criminal investigation and escalated the US government’s fight against Chinese tech. TikTok was the first Chinese app to become a US juggernaut, and lawmakers soon recognized its potential for surveillance and propaganda—and the threat it might pose in the hands of their rivals. Yet even as hawks in Congress gained support to ban the app, the White House was secretly negotiating for unprecedented control over its information stream. In 2025, when President Donald Trump declined to enforce the so-called ban law, TikTok seemed to complete a miraculous corporate escape. It retained its influence, profits, and power, but now operated at the pleasure of two strongmen: China’s Xi Jinping and Trump himself."--Publisher description.Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: TikTok (Firm).; Social media.; Social media; Whistle blowers.; Privacy, Right of; Mobile apps; Data privacy.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 10

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Battling the big lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the Maga Media are destroying America / by Pfeiffer, Dan,author.;

Introduction -- I.What Happened -- II. How it Happened -- III. What we do about it"In BATTLING THE BIG LIE, bestselling author Dan Pfeiffer returns to lay out how the Right Wing built such a robust and successful disinformation machine, how they have used it to amass power despite representing a dwindling share of the country, and how readers can fight back against disinformation with step-by-step guides on spotting fake news, becoming their own fact checker, and talking to their conspiracy theory-obsessed relatives. Over the last twenty years, the Right Wing has built a massive media apparatus that is weaponizing misinformation for political purposes. The Right Wing media ecosystem personified by Fox and fueled by Facebook is waging war on the very idea of objective truth -- and it's winning. This misinformation campaign is at the root of much that is rotten in America and around the world. Trump is a product of this eco-system as is the immense polarization and division and our inability to deal rationally with immense threats like COVID and Climate Change. Here, Pfeiffer lays bare the tactics used by the Right Wing propaganda machine and how to combat them, including: QAnon and its proponents, from Facebook groups to members of congress ; The optimization of Facebook as the ultimate carrier of Right Wing clickbait ; Educating the Left to "fight fire with fire" and nurture progressive media ; How to have hard conversations with the Fox News-watching, conspiracy theory-believing relative in your life. A functioning democracy depends on a shared understanding of reality. America is teetering on the edge because one of the two parties in our two-party system views truth, facts, and science as their opponent. As BATTLING THE BIG LIE proves, time is running out to fix this problem. There are no easy answers or quick fixes, but something must be done.

Subjects: Facebook (Firm); Instagram (Firm); YouTube (Electronic resource); Internet in political campaigns; Social media; Journalism; Disinformation.; Information society.; Social media.; Political science.; Social media.;

Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 21

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Disney High : the untold story of the rise and fall of Disney Channel's tween empire / by Spencer, Ashley(Journalist),author.;

"The first unauthorized look at the inner workings-and ultimate breakdown-of the Disney Channel machine. For many kids growing up in the 2000s, there was no cultural touchstone more powerful than Disney Channel, the most-watched cable channel in primetime at its peak. Today, it might best be known for introducing the world to talents like Hilary Duff, Raven-Symoné, Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, and Zendaya. It wasn't always destined for greatness: when The Disney Channel launched in 1983, it was a forgotten stepchild within the Walt Disney Company, forever in the shadow of Disney's more profitable movies and theme parks. But after letting the stars of their Mickey Mouse Club revival -among them Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and Ryan Gosling -slip through their fingers, Disney Channel reinvented itself as a powerhouse tween network. In the new millennium, it churned out billions of dollars in original content and triple-threat stars whose careers were almost entirely controlled by the corporation. Suddenly, everyone wanted a piece of the pie- and there were constant clashes between the studio, network, labels, and creatives as Disney Channel became a pressure cooker of perfection for its stars. From private feuds and on-set disasters, to fanfare that swept the nation and the realities of child stardom, culture journalist Ashley Spencer offers the inside story of the heyday of TV's House of Mouse, featuring hundreds of exclusive new interviews with former Disney executives, creatives, and celebrities to explore the highs, lows, and everything in between"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Changing of the guard -- The experimental era -- Even Stevens : talent and turmoil -- Lizzie McGuire : the TV girl next door -- Hilary Duff : pop star and movie star -- That's so Raven-Symoné -- The suite (and not so sweet) life -- High school musical : the little movie that could -- Even more High school musical : stardom and sequels -- The rise of Hannah Montana -- Miley Cyrus : rock star and role model -- Selena Gomez and Wizards of Waverly Place -- Jonas Brothers : purity rings and pre-made stars -- Demi Lovato, Camp Rock, and a painful reality.

Subjects: Teen television programs; Teenage actors; Youth on television.; Mass media and teenagers; Disney Channel (Firm);

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7

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Careless people : a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism / by Wynn-Williams, Sarah,author.;

Prologue -- Simpleminded hope -- Pitching the revolution -- This is going to be fun -- Auf Wiedersehen to all that -- The little red book -- What do we stand for? -- Show him a good time -- Running out of road -- Lady McNugget -- Only good news -- Road trip -- The body -- Stockholm syndrome -- Five settlers and one billionaire in Catan -- A simple request -- Just keep driving -- Going down in a blaze of glory -- Red flag -- PAC-man -- Slouching toward autocracy -- Billionaire time -- Hunger games for the 0.001 percent -- Making sure this thing flies -- California time -- Muppets and monsignors -- The Wicked Witch of the West -- Street fighter tactics -- Lean in and lie back -- Citizen Sanchez -- Poker face -- A heartwarming story -- What to not expect when you're expecting -- Do we have to go into this? -- The Facebook election -- Angry at the truth -- Rosebud -- Man of the people -- Let them eat cake -- Facebook feminist fight club -- Greetings from Beijing -- Our Chinese partner -- Respectfully, senator -- Move fast and break the law -- Emotional targeting -- A fish rots from the head -- Myanmar -- It really didn't have to be this way -- Just business -- Epilogue.An insider account charting one woman's career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Wynn-Williams, Sarah.; Facebook (Firm); Facebook (Firm); Facebook (Electronic resource); Women executives; Social media; Social media; Women diplomats; Sociology.;

Available copies: 31 / Total copies: 53

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News war [videorecording] by Aronson-Rath, Raney.; Barker, Greg.; Bergman, Lowell.(CARDINAL)221852; Bomse, Seth.; Coronel, Sheila S.; Dragon, Margaret.; Fanning, David.(CARDINAL)222304; Lyman, Will.(CARDINAL)184379; Rath, Arun.; Rizzi, Claudia.; Talbot, Stephen.; Cam Bay Productions.; Little Rain Productions, Inc.; PBS Home Video.(CARDINAL)218235; University of California, Berkeley.Graduate School of Journalism.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)(CARDINAL)154259; WGBH Educational Foundation.(CARDINAL)132712;

Director of photography, Ben McCoy ; music composed by John Low, Claudio Regazzi, Askold Ruk ; camera, Frank-Peter Lehmann, Scott Anger ; translator, Paula Wang.Narrated by Will Lyman ; commentators include Ron Suskind, Tom Rosenstiel, Bob Woodward, Jay Rosen, Clark Hoyt, Walter Pincus, Joseph C. Wilson, David Szady, Judith Miller, Norman Pearlstine, Leonard Downie, Earl Caldwell, Edwin Meese, William Bradford Reynolds, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, William Safire, Mark Feldstein, James Goodale, Lucy Dalglish, Floyd Abrams, Bill Keller, Steven Aftergood, Mark McKinnon, Dana Priest, James Risen, Eric Lichtblau, Dan Bartlett, Seymour Hersh, John McLaughlin, John Miller, Lance Williams, Mark Fainaru-Wada, Phil Bronstein, Tasia Scolinos, Josh Wolf, Randall D. Eliason, David Javerbaum, David Westin, Brian Ross, Jeff Fager, Ted Koppel, Dan Rather, Tom Bettag, Walter Isaacson, Scott Moore, Eric Schmidt, Andrew Baron, Markos Moulitsas, Jeff Jarvis, Nicholas Lemann, Josh Marshall, Scott Johnson, Simon Surowicz, Kevin Sites, Charles Bobrinskoy, David Hiller, Lauren Rich Fine, Craig Newmark, Larry Kramer, Rob Curley, Jim Brady, Eli Broad, Andy Barnes, Duncan MacInnis, Brian Conniff, Claudie Abi Hanna, Bushra Abdel Samad, Ghassan Ben Jeddou, Wadah Khanfar, Mamoun Fandy, Abderrahim Foukara, Eric Clark, Frank Pascual, Nakhle El Hage, Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, Michael Pelletier, NIgel Parsons, Cliff Kincaid, David Marash, Geoffrey Nyarota.Secrets, Sources & Spin Part 1 examines the political and legal forces challenging the mainstream news media today and press reactions. The film looks at the debates over the role of journalism; the relationship between the Bush administration and the press; the controversies surrounding the use of anonymous sources in reporting; and the unintended consequences of the Valerie Plame investigation -- a confusing, ugly affair that ultimately damaged the legal protections reporters' thought they enjoyed under the First Amendment. Part 2 continues with the legal jeopardy faced by a number of reporters across the country, and the complications generated by the war on terror. Many reporters face jail for refusing to reveal sources in the context of leak investigations, while editors of the nation's leading newspapers now confront the question of how much can the press reveal about secret government programs in that war without jeopardizing national security? In What's Happening to the News (Pt. 3), network executives, journalists, Wall Street analysts, bloggers, and key players at Google and Yahoo! explain the battle for survival in a rapidly changing world. The embattled Los Angeles Times, one of the last remaining papers in the country still covering major national stories, is profiled. The Frontline/World (4th) segment focuses on two stories. The first is on new Arab media and its role in both mitigating and exacerbating the clash between the West and Islam. Al Jazeera has changed the face of a parochial and tightly controlled Arab media, and this hour explores Al Jazeera's growing influence around the world. The second is a video essay on journalists worldwide, which details how in many countries the press has been suppressed, and journalists have been jailed, exiled, and murdered.DVD, Region 1, Stereo, widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16x9 televisions.

Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; United States. National Security Agency.; United States.; Al Jazeera (Television network); Los Angeles Times (Firm); Attribution of news.; Confidential communications; Eavesdropping; Freedom of the press; Government and the press; Journalism.; Journalists; Leaks (Disclosure of information); Mass media; Mass media; Press;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Mindf*ck : Cambridge Analytica and the plot to break America / by Wylie, Christopher,author.(CARDINAL)816838;

"Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica's "American operations," which were driven by Steve Bannon's vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer's money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individuals--in excess of 87 million--to disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within America's soul lurked an explosive tension. Cambridge Analytica had the data to prove it, and in 2016 Bannon had a presidential campaign to use as his proving ground."--Amazon.

Subjects: Cambridge Analytica Ltd.; Facebook (Firm); Internet in political campaigns; Political campaigns; Presidents; Data protection; Big data; Information society.; Internet; Internet marketing; Internet advertising; Social media and society.; Fake news;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5

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Fastread buying a home : all the steps you need to know to purchase your dream home. by Adams Media (Firm)(CARDINAL)634522;

Subjects: House buying; House buying.; Residential real estate;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The infographic guide to college : a visual reference for everything you need to know. by Adams Media (COR).; Adams Media (Firm),editor.(CARDINAL)634522;

Subjects: Graphs.; College students; College student orientation; College student orientation; Universities and colleges;

Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7

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