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eye opening raw facts

Reviewed: 04-13-25

she explains the true nature of the people at the head of one of them world's most powerful companies

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Accurate, eye-opening. FB caused grave damage

Reviewed: 02-17-24

So grateful to Jeff Horwitz and Frances Haugen and others like Samidh Chakrabarti and the integrity staffers who fought (they shouldn't have even had to fight...) to protect democracy, truth, and simply to prevent the rise of unnecessary anger and outrage that has lead to real world violence.

I used to have a neutral feeling about Zuckerberg, but after learning how many times he directly thwarted progress towards safety, decency, and truth in the world, I now pray he has a wake up call.

In this book we learn how Trump was basically elected because of the flourishing misinformation, false anger (anger based on falsehoods, used to manipulate people), and Facebook stood by and their algorithm actually EXCEPTIONALLY ENCOURAGED and spread this. Turned its spark into a roaring wildfire 100x or even 1000x what it was in reality.

Because of this, millions of people were swept up in misinformation that swayed not only their votes, but how they saw and treated their fellow men and women.

Racism -> began a sharp uptick due to this

Division -> In places like Myanmar and India and many other countries, hate speech ballooned and turned people against each other.

Flat Earthers -> silly ideas about the world and reality like the "flat earth theory" have risen from being what they really are, into now actually being followed by many people. People don't even agree that we've been to the Moon anymore.

As someone who studies near death experiences and the bigger picture of life we're in, power and profit (what Zuckerberg's actions so far have been based on) are not what we're here for. We can't take those with us, and they aren't what matters in the bigger picture.

Zuckerberg talks a lot about wanting to make the world a better place. The evidence in this book shows all the times he's directly stepped on those trying to help FB/Meta do that. He needs a wake up call, and I'm so glad this book is getting the truth more out.

Think about this: Without the "broken code" in FB's algorithm, we wouldn't have nearly the amount of hate and anger and racism, walking-back of progress that we've had in the past years. It's not a coincidence or a loose correlation. Facebook directly caused most of this, especially in the run up to the 2016 election.

Facebook/Meta/Zuckerberg know what to do and they just have to do it.

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Fascinating to ponder on. The essay references in

Reviewed: 02-24-22

Christian's words and energy are grounding and simple. He explains his realizations, experiences, and thoughts on life genuinely and without hype or hyperbole. And they are fascinating! And true!

We are not purely physical beings that have one life and that's it. Life with a capital L is far more than just this one lifetime. I found myself going "ah-ha!" many times while listening to the audio version.

One thing to note is that in Part 1, there's a relatively short section where he reads off the essay numbers. I initially didn't know what these were, and I found them confusing and even slightly frustrating, since, in this book section, there might only be a few sentences of content followed by a list of numbers.

Christian explained that the essay numbers are important because they tie the ideas together (1), and, Amazon required the book to be read verbatim, for the written and audio versions to sync. So it might be slightly confusing, but once you understand, and know it had to be read aloud like this, it makes sense.

There is far more content after this part, so please don't get hung up on it. :)

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