Doomsday Machine is based on Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang's bestselling book An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination as well as their New York Times reporting and the reporting of the New Yorker's Andrew Marantz. Doomsday Machine chronicles the political and social minefields Facebook has navigated on its relentless quest for growth. The series places us in the shoes of Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg, who are shaping the way that billions of people around the world communicate and consume information.