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🌎They are two of the world's most powerful – yet unknowable – leaders

📖A new book has gone in search of the real Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, the masterminds behind social media giant Facebook.

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🔎In an exclusive extract from the book ‘An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination’ published in @telegraph, authors Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang described how engineers would spy on women
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👁️The book details how engineers would access users’ private information – including women they were dating – for over a decade

"It was late at night, hours after his colleagues at Menlo Park had left the office, when the Facebook engineer felt pulled back to his laptop," it reads

"He knew that with just a few taps at his keyboard, he could access the Facebook profile of a woman he had gone on a date with a few days ago…"

Read the full exclusive extract here👇
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Speaking to @Telegraph, co-author Frenkel said: "You could argue they [Zuckerberg and Sandberg] have more power than any sitting president, and we don’t really know who they are"

📱Facebook owns WhatsApp and Instagram.

As a result of highly sophisticated user tracking across the three wildly popular platforms, it sure knows a hell of a lot about you

🔴Yet it is also a company which, from election meddling to genocide abetting, has been inadvertently involved in a series of extraordinary scandals.

Any one of which might have fatally sunk another company - but not Facebook

❓So should we delete Facebook? The authors, both users themselves, say no.

"I don’t think it’s realistic," says Frenkel

Do you use Facebook?

Read @Telegraph’s interview with the book’s authors here 👇

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