The Ugly Truth

Join us for a conversation with Cecilia Kang about a book described by the New York Times Book Review as ‘the ultimate takedown of Facebook’.

For years, fringe ideologues were able to use Facebook undisturbed to promote their extreme ideologies and conspiracies. In An Ugly Truth, published in Dutch as De smerige waarheid by Atlas Contact, New York Times tech reporters Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel reveal how Facebook’s algorithms sacrificed everything for user engagement and profit, while creating a misinformation epicenter and violating the privacy of its users. Through deep investigatory work, Kang and Frenkel came to a shocking conclusion: the missteps of the social media platform were not an anomaly but an inevitability—this is how Facebook was built to perform.

Moderator: Wouter van Noort

In collaboration with:  John Adams Institute and Atlas Contact

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Cecilia Kang

Cecilia Kang is a national technology correspondent for The New York Times. She writes about regulatory issues such as privacy, cybersecurity, antitrust and the digital divide. Cecilia spent one decade at The Washington Post as senior technology correspondent and began her career in Seoul, South Korea for Dow Jones.