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Steven Levy

Biography

Steven Levy

Steven Levy is Wired’s editor at large. The Washington Post has called him “America’s premier technology journalist.” His previous positions include founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books, and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper’s Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker and Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his 30-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book HACKERS, which PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last 20 years; and for CRYPTO, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.

Steven Levy

Books by Steven Levy

by Steven Levy - Biography, Business, Nonfiction, Technology

As a college sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from its first, modest iteration. In light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO --- who has enormous power over what the world sees and says --- never has a company been more central to the national conversation. Based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, Steven Levy’s sweeping narrative of incredible entrepreneurial success and failure digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.