Framed

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is the Big Tech polemic that wasn't supposed to be written.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Tim O'Hearn is a lovable rogue who spent his early twenties gaining millions of followers for his clients while fighting anti-botting measures on social networks. After losing the battle he engineered addictive technology systems at a social media startup that eventually imploded.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Framed</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> isn't a research project. It's a first-person account of growing up with the internet learning how to program and earning money from the dark side of social media. It fondly recalls early Web 2.0 and reintroduces a forgotten practice from Myspace that laid the groundwork for modern fame seeking. It analyzes the tangled ecosystem of businesses dependent on social media platforms and the mystifying exercises of software companies setting rules and actually enforcing them.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The book pushes opinions on today's hottest topics: influencers verification algorithms filter bubbles botnets screen addiction fake love spam shadowbans black hat marketing deplatforming journalism and news feeds the dead internet theory video game cheating and why people are still buying fake followers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And-getting banned. Read </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Framed</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> while you still can.</span></p>