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[quote=Anonymous]I got it from Libby surprisingly quickly, and it was a terrific weekend read.  I thought I would just skim it for the boldface names, but I ended up reading it through and learned a lot about how big tech interacts with governments (trying to extract every penny out of the country without paying taxes or following national rules to the extent possible).

The stuff about Sheryl Sandberg and her lingerie and requests to sleep in the same bed as colleagues got the most media stuff, but to me the passages about Mark Zuckerberg were the most interesting.  He started out as the quintessential engineer and seemed surprisingly sweet and geeky not having any interest in politics and having to be forced into meeting heads of states, and then got inspired into thinking he could be President and then got disillusioned again when Obama and a lot of other world leaders called him out for not discouraging fake news/posts intended to inflame and how he let the Chinese government have access to all the facebook data. Joel Kaplan comes off the worst in this book as a ignoramus sexist predator and Sheryl is a charismatic and bright but shallow and self-interested mean girl, despite her Lean in stuff.

The stuff about how they sent the author to Zika hot spots while pregnant while trying to protect Mark from being outdoors anywhere in Latin America while trying to conceive were kind of funny/awful.[/quote]

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