Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read This Book

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg don’t want you to read the book Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. It’s a memoir from Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams that details the company’s attempts to enter China and how desperately weird its C-suite is. An arbitrator gave Meta a favorable ruling this morning, following an emergency meeting. The ruling says that Wynn-Williams can no longer promote the book and that she must, as best she can, halt its publication. Careless People, which you can buy from Bookshop right now, is a first-person account of what Wynn-Williams saw while working at Meta at the highest level. She was a part of the company from 2011 to 2017 and worked alongside executives like Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Joel Kaplan. Wynn-Williams and her publisher kept the memoir secret until just a few days before its publication earlier this week, fearing that Meta would try to shut down its publication. Reading through it, it’s easy to see ... Read full article.