An Ugly Truth is a book about Facebook's wrongdoing, written by award-winning journalists.

*The problem of Facebook is Zuckerberg. And the question posed by this splendid book is: what are we going to do about him?*

The first step is, don't be a zucker — don't be a used of Facebook. Your doing this will not eradicate Facebook, but it will exert one person's worth of influence against its power, and it won't take much work.

If you are in an organization that insists on having a "Facebook presence", you could exert a little more anti-Facebook influence by suggesting that the organization use that only as a way for people to find it and make initial contact.

Turkey plans to encourage the torture of Kurds to be forgotten by converting Military prison 5 in Diyarbakır into a "cultural center".

Right-wing extremists are picketing a trans-friendly spa, claiming to be concerned about customers that might be in danger from trans-women.

Since they are right-wing, they don't feel sincere concern for women's rights. Their "concern" is bogus, dishonest.

Thus, instead of letting them make their falsified concern be the issue, we should make their dishonesty the issue.

The partisan "audit" of ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona, has generated a bogus appearance of irregularity by lumping in early voting ballots with mail-in ballots. The list of people who were mail-in ballots does not include the early voting ballots, and this has been cast as a "mysterious absence".

This supposed discrepancy is an example of how Republicans leap from one falsehood to the next falsehood. When enough truth-despising Republicans repeat the falsehood, other people can be swayed by the sheer number of people and web sites repeating it as the truth, and Republican officials can use that as the basis to draw false conclusions officially.

US insurance companies have not grasped how climate mayhem will affect their insurance payouts. It is important for them to learn this, so that they can take the selfish steps that will discourage misguided projects that are likely to be greatly damaged by climate mayhem or exacerbate it.