In her memoir 'Careless People', Sarah Wynn-Williams offers an insider's perspective of Facebook, revealing the negligence of its leadership amid rising disinformation and authoritarian collusion. Capable of dark humor, she critiques the company's status-driven culture and the personal failure of its executives, paralleling them to characters in 'The Great Gatsby'. After years of dedication and pitching herself as a diplomat, her elation at joining the company revealed a stark contrast to the realities she later encountered. The book captures the disillusionment with an ideal that transformed into complicity with darker political currents.
For seven years, beginning in 2011, the book's author, Sarah Wynn-Williams, worked at Facebook (now called Meta), eventually as a director of global public policy.
Wynn-Williams reveals the burdens of responsibility overlooked by Facebook's leaders, becoming more feckless as the company facilitated disinformation and allied with authoritarian regimes.
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