Facebook's '15 months of Fresh Hell' detailed deliciously by WIRED

'Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.'

Welp. That didn't work.

The May issue cover story of WIRED Magazine is a 12,000-word rip-snorting takedown of Facebook.

Never would have predicted this more than a decade ago, when I first wrote about Facebook--- it was still a college networking website-- and I was a contributor to Wired. The future is weird.

For the past year, the biggest story in tech has been the meltdown and mayhem at Facebook. So @fvogelstein and I dug in, spoke with 65 current + former employees there, and learned some rather interesting things. https://t.co/3UuFVtMdZz

— Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) April 16, 2019

The magazine hits newsstands April 23, and I'll be wanting a paper copy of this one.

WIRED's editor in chief Nicholas Thompson and editor at large Fred Vogelstein spoke to 65 current and former Facebook employees for this story about life and work there over the past year.

Plenty of new information, including previously unreported dirt on the split between Facebook and Instagram. Sheryl Sandberg comments here on Cambridge Analytica, which is noteworthy.

Its ultimately a story about the biggest shifts ever to take place inside the worlds biggest social network, Thompson and Vogelstein say in a statement sent around to media today, touting WIRED's big story.

But its also about a company trapped by its own pathologies and, perversely, by the inexorable logic of its own recipe for success.

Excerpt:

TRUSTWORTHINESS

Why would a company beset by fake news stick a knife into real news?