"The problem is that Facebook has seen the moment when he had troubles"

US President Donald Trump accepts CEO Facebook Mark Zuckerberg in Oval Cabinet, September 2019

Photo: Joiyce N. Boghosian / Official White House Photo

Sarah Frier, a journalist of the Bloomberg agency, lives in San Francisco, writes about politics inside and around key social networks, about that (quote from its site), "as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter , which will affect their future and our society."

At the end of April, the Bombor publishing house is the translation of the bestseller Sarah Freyer “No Filter. Instagram history. " Talking about the creation and stunning success of the new application, the author pays special attention to the period after 2012, when Instagram was bought by Facebook, and changes began in the management of the company, very painful for its founders.

Kevin System and Mike Kriger, who created Instagram as a tool for the creative implementation of users, could not become an organic part of the Mark Zuckerberg monetary machine and left the company in September 2018.

One of the key stages of this smoldering conflict was the election of the US President in 2016, in which Facebook took an active and extremely ambiguous participation. However, Donald Trump’s victory was facilitated not so much by the FB algorithms themselves that were extremely convenient for the spread of misinformation and populist conspiracy theories, but also the fact that Trump's headquarters figured out these algorithms and used them much more effectively than the enemy team.

About this - in an excerpt from the head of "cannibalization" , which we publish with the kind permission of the publishing house.

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