Summary
A former Facebook executive, Wynn-Williams, exposes the company’s toxic culture in her new book Careless People.
She alleges Mark Zuckerberg “lied” to Congress about Facebook’s China dealings and describes COO Sheryl Sandberg as manipulative, detailing an uncomfortable incident where Sandberg repeatedly invited her to bed on a private jet.
She also accuses Facebook of enabling election misinformation and failing to curb hate speech in Myanmar.
The whistleblower portrays Facebook as “an autocracy of one” where Zuckerberg makes decisions that align with business interests rather than ethical considerations.
As somebody who left Facebook a decade ago I didn’t need told the company sucks. Feed used to consist of family members complaining about being temp banned for Nazi shit back when that wasn’t actively encouraged, or of course the aforementioned Nazi shit. Like, yeah, of course you got a temp ban for calling people directly things I’d feel uncomfortable repeating out loud in an empty room. Edit: like I feel gross repeating some of my various uncle’s bullshit in my own head.