Steven Levy, author, "Facebook: The Inside Story"

A Brief History of Facebook, by Jen Sorensen.

About Steven Levy:

• Previous appearance on Techtonic: December 18, 2017 episode

• Website: stevenlevy.com

• Twitter: @stevenlevy

• Book: Facebook: The Inside Story

• Wired magazine contributions

• Other Techtonic interviews on Facebook:
    - Siva Vaidhyanathan, author, "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy" (June 25, 2018)
    - Roger McNamee, author, "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe" (May 6, 2019)

Tech news:

• White Supremacist Groups Are Thriving on Facebook (Tech Transparency Project, May 21, 2020): "Facebook's 'Related Pages' feature often directed users visiting white supremacist Pages to other extremist or far-right content, raising concerns that the platform is contributing to radicalization."

• Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job (The Verge, May 12)

• September 16, 2019 Techtonic: Sarah T. Roberts, author of "Behind the Screen," on content moderators

• Why Facebook Censored an Anti-Trump Ad (by Steven Levy in his Wired Plaintext newsletter, May 15, 2020)

• Facebook and Instagram roll out Shops, turning business profiles into storefronts (TechCrunch, May 19)

• Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR (BBC, May 21)

Resources mentioned:

• deletefacebook.com

• Invisible Hands

• Bed Stuy Strong

• New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund