Zucked

A little slow in the beginning where the author recounts his upbringing and I was thinking, oh, no, but it picks up and is a pretty good refresher and recounting of what everyone seems to have forgotten after attention-seeking Musk decided he has to be the most evil of the evil ("look at me, look at me!"). The book is from the perspective of someone who's on a first-name basis and still cozy with the power players (reminds me of Emily Chang interviews who by the way is also name-dropped but escapes criticism from her buddiness with Sheryl Sandberg) and in the genre of people-who-made-a-ton-of-money-at-facebook-and-are-now-writing-books-about-how-they're-now-outraged, but the author has a history of op-eds and lobbying to control big tech in the last decade and the dynamics he recounts in those efforts are the most interesting aspects here (I'm more dubious about his prescriptions, e.g. removing anonymity - tell that to bloggers who ended up in Chinese prisons after having their account info turned over by Yahoo and Microsoft). It's a rare wealthy tech investor these days willing to draw the line at democracy-destroying behavior (looking at you Andreesen-Horowitz)