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Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams is an account of the author’s employment at Facebook as a director of global public policy, working closely with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for six years. Hailing from New Zealand with a professional background as a diplomat, Wynn-Williams joined the social media company in 2011 and was initially full of idealism about Facebook’s power to connect people around the world. According to Wynn-Williams, Sandberg did the total opposite of what she preached in her book Lean In about supporting women in the workplace. Her portrayal of Zuckerberg’s discomfort in meetings with world leaders are the main source of dark humour in the book. The success of the book has been driven by the Streisand effect of Meta attempting to block its publication, and while the toxic workplace culture, the role of Facebook in the genocide in Myanmar, the algorithms engineered to exploit vulnerable people and the social awkwardness of its creator have already been documented elsewhere, Careless People is a devastating exposé by a former senior employee which should be widely read. Continue reading →