Facebook: The Inside Story

The company Mark Zuckerberg started in a college dormitory now carries close to three billion users and a level of political consequence nobody planned for. Steven Levy spent years reporting this account, with access to Facebook executives and staff including Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. The narrative follows the company from an undergraduate side project to a global platform, and then into the period defined by data-handling controversies, coordinated misinformation and public argument over how much responsibility a platform owes for what it distributes. Levy writes it as business history rather than polemic, tracing the decisions, incentives and internal disagreements that produced each stage. Chapter and verse: • Built on years of direct access to executives and employees • Covers the company from its dorm-room origins to global scale • Examines data privacy, misinformation and platform responsibility • Written by a veteran technology journalist Suited to readers of business history, technology and media studies, available from Boipoka.