‘Careless People’ author to testify during a Senate hearing about Facebook

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Sarah Wynn-Williams, the ex-Meta employee who authored Careless People, will testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee next week. On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wynn-Williams will address Facebook’s “cooperation with the Communist regime in China, including FB’s plan to build censorship tools.” Despite Meta’s attempts to silence Wynn-Williams with a gag order preventing her from promoting her book, Careless People topped the New York Times bestseller list upon release. Careless People provides Wynn-Williams’s account of her time as Facebook’s director of public policy. One of the chapters outlines Facebook’s initiative to get unblocked in China, during which the book says the company “proposed all kinds of byzantine arrangements involving China-based partnerships, data collection and censorship tools that it hoped wou ... Read full article.