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The scathing new biography Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former global public policy director at Meta (formerly known as Facebook), is the hottest item in the world of book publication. It may become the most important book of 2025, pulling the curtain back to show how evil in social media on the grandest scales actually works.

There are, of course, rap videos emerging about this Zuck versus Sarah confrontation. See below.

'm sorry, but I couldn't resist. It's too easy to make a decent AI-assisted music video these days.

This account of Sarah's years at the company, from her dramatic, clever pitch for an international position in 2011that didn't exist to her termination in 2017, not only provides personal indictments of several executives she reported to, including Joel Kaplan, Sheryl Sandberg, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg but also delves into the swamp of Silicon Valley's general swelling pool of narcissistic greed and cold amorality.

Wynn-Williams describes the terrible and lethal consequences of Facebook's leadership conflicts and missteps at this time when the company was quickly growing globally. The former diplomat covers political scandals and workplace nightmares with no hyperbole; her only regret for continuing to believe in Facebook's potential as signs of disaster became impossible to ignore. She even vividly and soberly describes her near-death experience from a shark attack during her childhood in New Zealand, like most of the events depicted in the book, with a heavy dose of wit.

"Mom, Dad, wake up, I'm dying from my shark attack bite!" Sandra said, the bite puncturing her lungs to interfere with her breathing.

"Don't worry dear, the doctor said you would be all-right. Mind over matter. Mind over matter."

Who gets back in the water, and in the same location, just a year later? Sarah did, she loved swimming that much.

By obtaining an emergency decision from a U.S. arbitration to stop Wynn-Williams from advertising or selling Careless People, which was kept a carefully guarded secret until just before its release this month, Meta has attempted to lessen the book's impact. This ingenious plan backfired, propelling the book immediately to the higher echelons of the best sellers lists. This is known as the Streisand Effect name after the singer tried to suppress a photo of her Malibu cliff mansion only to bring more attention to it.

It comes as no surprise that Meta rejected the book in a statement provided to Rolling Stone. The statement said that Wynn-Williams was "fired for poor performance and toxic behavior" and that "an investigation at the time determined she made misleading and unfounded allegations of harassment."

If what Wynn-William claims is true, most of the executives at Meta should be fired for toxic behavior like misogyny and looking the other way when manipulative algorithms are employed that prey on emotionally vulnerable teenage girls that sometimes lead to death-- all in the name of selling products and gathering information.

It is no surprise that former Meta employees have disputed the book's details, calling it "a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives." But others have supported it.

Regarding Sherly Sandberg's extremely negative sexual predator and power-wielding portrayal in Careless People, a spokeswoman for Meta declined to comment, suggesting that it was true. Not only the males commit heinous acts of power-abusive misogyny at Meta.

"Sarah, come to bed!" Who spends $13,000 on lingerie in one shopping day for two people?

The New York Times number-one bestseller in the nonfiction category is the product of Macmillan Publishers and its imprint, Flatiron Books, which is not backing down on publishing this witty and eloquent account of life at the top of tech.

These are ten of the most outrageous incidents during Wynn-William's trip down the rabbit hole to the center of the IT industry.

#1 Staff Lets Zuckerberg Win at Board Games

Wynn-Williams spent more time with Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook's impact grew and her function became more important. She notes that their relationship at work might be difficult at times. Unaware that the prime minister of New Zealand was standing with them, Zuckerberg informed her he had no interest in meeting with him. It wasn't always much better in terms of social connections. She writes that Zuckerberg recommended playing the strategic board game Settlers of Catan on a trip to Asia. While everyone got into the nerdy spirit of it, Wynn-Williams started to think that her coworkers purposefully never pursued their boss. She informed them, "You're letting him win," but they denied it, and Zuckerberg, she adds, was completely unaware of it. She didn't hold back when she played board games with Zuckerberg on his private plane years later, defeating him twice. She claims that he accused her of cheating on both occasions. The second time, she told him, "You had multiple ways to win," outlining the better plays he might have made in the closing moments of the round. According to Wynn-Williams, the argument evolved into a debate on Zuckerberg's alleged poor Facebook management. She said to him, "You're so accustomed to being the one who gets everything."

#2 Invitations to Female Subordinates to Sheryl Sandberg's Learjet Bedroom

Careless People portrays Sheryl Sandberg, the former CEO of Facebook (who resigned in 2022), as prone to violent outbursts and tone-deaf self-promotion. She was frequently at odds with the feminist principles she outlined for others to follow in her popular corporate advice book Lean In and unconcerned with the plight of other women working in Silicon Valley, which men dominate. Stranger still, according to Wynn-Williams, Sandberg frequently crossed lines with her female coworkers. She says that they were occasionally told to join Sandberg in her bed on her private plane, in addition to having to help with things like book tours and public appearances that weren't part of their job duties. Wynn-Williams intended to use the hours in the air to work on a debrief as required by Sandberg during a flight back to the United States after the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. However, the executive insisted that she "come to bed" in the jet's only bedroom while still in her pajamas, thank God it wasn't lingerie. Wynn-Williams continued to decline, believing that "it wouldn't be right for a male COO to ask for this, and it's not right for a female one to." When the plane finally touched when the plane finally landed in California, Wynn-Williams writes, Sandberg became agitated and shouted, "You should have gotten into the bed." another of Sandberg's female staffers accompanied her into the bedroom at her request on a subsequent trip.

#3 An Organ Donor Drive: What Could Go Wrong?

According to Wynn-Williams, she tried to persuade Facebook's executives to establish ties with other governments early on in the company's history as it attempted to increase its user bases in those nations. Despite the enormous cultural, legal, and religious challenges it presented, as well as the fact that Facebook was barely prepared to operate as an organ or patient registry, chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg at one time decided to launch a global organ donation effort. (I wonder if there was an influence on Sheryl from the country that is the world's leader in illegal organ trafficking? Does a person like Sheryl Sanberg develop this idea on her own?)

Wynn-Williams remembers Sandberg's frustration, partly due to worries that the corporation was facilitating organ trafficking, when she learned that the initiative would only encourage individuals to register with local donation sites. "Do you mean to tell me that if my four-year-old was dying and the only thing that would save her was a new kidney, I couldn't fly to Mexico and get one and put it in my handbag?" According to the book, Sandberg posed this unusual rhetorical question. According to Wynn-Williams, she had to carefully explain that this is prohibited, much to Sandberg's obvious chagrin. Although Sandberg made sure that "registered as an organ donor" may show up on user sites as a "life event," such as getting married or relocating to a new location, the program was drastically reduced in scope.

#4 'Heartwarming' Employee Arrest

Facebook's vice president in Brazil, Diego Dzodan, was jailed in 2016 when the company's subsidiary, WhatsApp, refused to turn over texts about a drug trafficking investigation. Although Wynn-Williams was appalled by the circumstances, she claims that Zuckerberg wanted to commemorate the occasion with a Facebook post because he was impressed by Dzodan's loyalty to him despite the possibility of imprisonment in a country with stringent internet regulations. She notes that he wrote multiple drafts, initially referring to it as a "heartwarming story" and asserting that Dzodan was acting to "protect our community," but omitting to disclose that Facebook was protecting the privacy of a suspected drug trafficking group that had threatened to kill the case's judge. According to her, staff members also cautioned a recalcitrant Zuckerberg that the message would undermine their defense of Dzodan, which was to inform the court that WhatsApp was a separate business and that a Facebook vice president could not be held accountable for its choices. According to Wynn-Williams, Zuckerberg "doesn't seem to be worried about Diego in the slightest" during internal talks. Dzodan was eventually freed a day later, and Zuckerberg never provided his "heartwarming" update on the vice president's brief detention.

#5 Alleged Sexual Harassment Patterns and Potential Retaliation

Wynn-Williams claims that after she gave birth to her second child, her former employer, Kaplan, purposefully brought up his practice of participating in their virtual meetings from his bed and inquired about her nursing and the consequences of the amniotic fluid embolism that almost killed her. She claims that he also remarks about her appearance while dancing at a business function and pushes on her. In addition, Wynn-Williams alleges that he did her work during her second maternity leave and gave her a performance review the day she officially returned to work, claiming she wasn't "responsive enough" while she was recuperating from the challenging birth and a coma brought on by significant blood loss. Wynn-Williams says she discussed some of her grievances with corporate attorneys during an unrelated internal inquiry. Still, she promised to drop the matter if Kaplan would cease upsetting her when the prospect of an investigation was raised. However, she says he didn't, and Kaplan essentially demoted her. She claims that when a follow-up inquiry into his actions found no wrongdoing, Wynn-Williams was swiftly dismissed and taken out of the office by a security guard during her following performance evaluation. In response to Rolling Stone's request for comment on the subject, Meta stated that the investigation into Wynn-Williams' allegations of harassment was extensive and took longer than usual, including 17 witness interviews and a review of all the documentation she submitted.

#6 The Casual Insinuation of Foreign Election Interference

According to her, Wynn-Williams was frequently astounded by the intrusive behavior of Facebook users, particularly their apparent disregard for fundamental international rules and customs. She says that after Joel Kaplan, a former George W. Bush White House chief of staff, took over as her boss on the policy team, he made a concerted effort to make money through political and electoral advertising abroad, even though he still needed to know the locations of some Latin American countries and that Taiwan is an island. Facebook's political advertising quickly led to regulatory issues in other nations. Unfazed, Kaplan reported that Lan reportedly informed Wynn-Williams that Facebook needed to establish political action committees worldwide, only to discover later that this was illegal. She clarified, "Nobody wants foreigners to finance their elections." wants foreigners to finance their elections." To his surprise, she writes that he changed course and stated, "We need to get moving on channeling money to our key allies offshore, you know, our most influential politicians in other countries." Wynn-Williams stated that this would be considered corruption and bribery, except for dictators who would be pleased to accept the funds. She writes, "I worry for a moment that he's thinking about it." There is no evidence that Facebook dispersed funds this way, and the chapter ends there.

#7 The Genocide in Myanmar

While pregnant, Wynn-Williams was sent on a terrifying one-woman mission to Myanmar in 2013 to speak with the country's ruling military regime and inquire as to why Facebook had been blocked there. Despite all the obstacles, she managed to convince a government ministry to support the startup, and shortly after, millions of people nationwide could use a restricted version of Facebook on their smartphones. But along with it came riots and mosque burnings, as well as a surge of online hate speech and false information directed toward Myanmar's Rohingya, a mostly Muslim minority. According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook blocked her attempt to hire a human rights expert in Southeast Asia to address issues in the country, failed to remove anti-Muslim slurs, was unable to post their Community Standards in Burmese, failed to make the site compatible with the Burmese language, and, for a while, relied solely on one contractor to moderate extremist content that was spreading there. The military initiated a violent campaign against the Rohingya in 2016, which is largely considered an ethnic cleansing after voters rejected the junta in favor of democratic candidates in a free election. The military slaughtered thousands of Rohingya, leading hundreds of thousands to flee. The junta slaughtered thousands of Rohingya, and hundreds of thousands fled to Bangladesh.

#8 China

Throughout Wynn-Williams' tenure in China, Zuckerberg remained committed to expanding Facebook despite the site's restrictions. She asserts their efforts led to several mistakes, deceit, and uncomfortable concessions. Zuckerberg was not allowed to attend a private meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other American tech CEOs in 2015, but he got to shake hands with Xi. He infuriated the Chinese authorities by posting a photo of himself and the back of Xi's head, giving the impression that he was at the meeting. (At a state dinner in the White House two days later, she writes, Xi refused Zuckerberg's request to do him the honor of naming the child his wife was then carrying.) Later, Wynn-Williams was horrified by internal documents that showed how Facebook was willing to comply with China's censorship demands and requests for user data in exchange for the possibility of operating within the country at some point: one memo warned that "Facebook employees would be responsible for user data responses that could lead to death, torture, and incarceration." In a remarkably awkward attempt to break into the Chinese market, Facebook covertly released apps in the country through shell corporations without permission but ostensibly with the tacit approval of China's internet regulator. They shut down following a New York Times are New York Times article that exposed the plan.

#9 Targeting Vulnerable Teenage Girls

Careless People is frank in its description of how, in the lead-up to an unexpected election victory in 2016, Donald Trump's campaign manipulated Facebook's systems with false information and divisive content (and how, according to Wynn-Williams, Zuckerberg and Sandberg were impressed rather than worried by this). However, according to a leaked document from a presentation to Australian brands, Wynn-Williams finds that the following year, the company was also offering advertisers the opportunity to target "thirteen-to-seventeen-year-olds across its platforms, including Instagram, during moments of psychological vulnerability when they feel ‘worthless,’ ‘Insecure,’ ‘stressed,’ ‘defeated,’ ‘anxious,’ ‘stupid, ‘useless,’ and ‘like a failure,’" the next year. One communications team member pointed out that Facebook was not taking any action to stop this exploitation while considering a statement that said the company intended to "remedy" such activities. Facebook may target users based on their racial based on their racial and ethnic heritage, as well as their emotional states. According to Wynn-Willi, when teenage females removed their pictures so that a business could immediately "serve a beauty ad to them."

#10 Workplace Casualties: Who Cares?

Wynn-Williams believed that the fundamental humanity of the workplace had vanished by the conclusion of her tenure at Facebook. She describes how she heard a "commotion" one day and rushed over to discover "a woman convulsing on the floor," bleeding from her face and spitting at the mouth as though she had struck her desk while falling. However, she claimed that no one at the neighboring desks offered to assist her, and instead, she chose to keep her eyes on her computers. She and two others called 911 without knowing which information would have helped the dispatcher or EMTs. The woman, Wynn-Williams writes, was "studiously concentrating on her computer" when she asked if she was the ill woman's manager. She replied that she was but added, "But I'm very busy." Wynn-Williams says the woman only mentioned that the sick woman was "a contractor," that "her contract's coming to an end soon," and that Wynn-Williams could contact human resources for more details. She claims that this conversation took place while the woman was still having seizures.