An excerpt from Kara Swisher's upcoming book, Burn Book: covering digital media in the '90s, Facebook and Google becoming information gatekeepers, and more (Kara Swisher/New York Magazine)

Kara Swisher / New York Magazine:

An excerpt from Kara Swisher’s upcoming book, Burn Book: covering digital media in the ’90s, Facebook and Google becoming information gatekeepers, and more  —  My front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe.  —  In the early 1990s, I was a reporter at the Washington Post.