Careless People: The Facebook Tell-All on Zuckerberg, Sandberg and Cozying Up to Authoritarian Regimes

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Anonymous wrote:Streisand Effect.

What a dummy.

Yep. He should’ve just brushed it off as a disgruntled employee. I look forward to reading the book!

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But we’re in 2025 now-if she left in 2017 not sure how they’re still trying to muzzle her book https://nypost.com/2025/03/13/business/meta-wins-ruling-in-scramble-to-block-memoir-on-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg/

The proceedings took place because Wynn-Williams agreed to an arbitration clause in her severance agreement with Facebook, according to the filing. Wynn-Williams worked at Facebook for six years and left in 2017, before it was renamed Meta.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Streisand Effect.

What a dummy.

Yep. He should’ve just brushed it off as a disgruntled employee. I look forward to reading the book!

lol as of Thursday afternoon, “Careless People” was No. 3 on Amazon’s bestsellers list.

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https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/ex-facebook-director-book-brutal-image-zuckerberg-20220239.php

From a read of the book, it’s clear why Meta wants to stop the spread of Wynn-Williams’ account: Its chief executive comes off badly. Though many of the book’s larger points have been previously reported, the anecdotes from Wynn-Williams’ globe-spanning interactions with Zuckerberg are the fresh, detail-rich stories you’d expect in a tell-all memoir. She casts him as hot-tempered, unaccountable for his mistakes, ignorant about history and — in one cringey board game session — an extremely sore loser.
“You’d hope that people who amass the kind of power Facebook has would learn a sense of responsibility, but they don’t show any sign of having done so,” Wynn-Williams writes. “In fact I see the opposite. The more they see the consequences of their actions, the less of a f—k Mark and Facebook’s leadership give.”
Some of the moments she describes were already public. Wynn-Williams accuses Zuckerberg of lying at a 2018 Senate hearing on data privacy and downplaying the amount that Facebook had worked with the Chinese Communist Party to try to get its app unblocked in the country. The CEO, in a 2015 United Nations keynote, announced that Facebook was planning to bring the internet to UN refugee camps — Wynn-Williams writes that the policy team at Facebook hadn’t heard a word of this idea and that it was possibly an “ad lib.”
Other sections are completely new. Over one dinner, Zuckerberg said Andrew Jackson — known for his populist appeal and his inhumane relocation of Native Americans — was America’s best president and “it’s not even close,” according to Wynn-Williams. One chapter says Zuckerberg told her he didn’t often come to their shared San Francisco neighborhood because he couldn’t get permission to build a helicopter pad. She accuses Zuckerberg of living in a “bubble,” detailing a moment when he forgot his passport for a 2016 trip to Peru and cast blame on others.
At points, Wynn-Williams grapples with her own impotence before the uber-powerful executive. She describes the flight back from Peru, writing that then-President Barack Obama had lit into Zuckerberg over fake news and misinformation on Facebook during the 2016 election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Heading back home, the CEO brooded and apparently accused Wynn-Williams of cheating when she won the board games Ticket to Ride and Settlers of Catan against him. She writes that he then started pondering a U.S. tour, almost like a presidential campaign run, before suggesting Facebook remake the news ecosystem with the company at its center. As the plane descended, Wynn-Williams writes, Zuckerberg asked her what she thought about his ideas — which she describes as a “power grab.”

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Anonymous wrote:I guess Zuckerberg doesn't believe in free speech when it's critical of him. Although with all this publicity people are going to want to read it even more.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/meta-wins-halt-promotion-careless-people-tell-all-book-by-former-employee-2025-03-13/

Meta Platformon Wednesday won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book "Careless People" by a former employee, according to a copy of the ruling published by the social media company.
The book by Meta's former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, was called by the New York Times book review "an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world," and its leading executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan.

Meta will suffer "immediate and irreparable loss" in the absence of an emergency relief, the American Arbitration Association's emergency arbitrator, Nicholas Gowen, said in a ruling after a hearing, which Wynn-Williams did not attend.
Book publisher Macmillan attended and argued it was not bound by the arbitration agreement, which was part of a severance agreement between the employee and company.
The ruling says that Wynn-Williams should stop promoting the book and, to the extent she could, stop further publication. It did not order any action by the publisher.

This is insane.

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I started listening to the audio today and it’s so good. We know how awful these people are already of course but it has a real “you are there” quality to it. And some really great stuff about the impossibility of being a working mom.

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https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/ex-facebook-director-book-brutal-image-zuckerberg-20220239.php

Wynn-Williams’ critiques aren’t limited to Zuckerberg. She describes the working culture under Sandberg as so intense that Wynn-Williams felt pressured to send her talking points while in labor, her feet in stirrups. “Open dissent isn’t an option with Sheryl,” Wynn-Williams writes, arguing that people “actively hide bad news or situations” from the executive in fear of being punished.
Kaplan comes off badly too. Per the book, he blocked Wynn-Williams’ hire of a human rights expert to focus on Myanmar, where Facebook, in its own words, didn’t do “enough to help prevent our platform from being used to foment division and incite offline violence.” Beginning in 2016, Myanmar’s army massacred thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, and hundreds of thousands more fled the country, with incendiary Facebook posts and groups fanning the flames of violence. Per Wynn-Williams’ account, the company didn’t have nearly enough Burmese-speaking content moderators.
“It wasn’t because of some grander vision or any malevolence toward Muslims in the country,” she wrote. “Nor a lack of money. My conclusion: It was just that Joel, Elliot [Schrage], Sheryl, and Mark didn’t give a f—k.”

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What??

Wynn-Williams is aghast to discover that Sandberg has instructed her 26-year-old assistant to buy lingerie for both of them, budget be damned. (The total cost is $13,000.) During a long drive in Europe, the assistant and Sandberg take turns sleeping in each other’s laps, stroking each other’s hair. On the 12-hour flight home on a private jet, a pajama-clad Sandberg claims the only bed on the plane and repeatedly demands that Wynn-Williams “come to bed.” Wynn-Williams demurs. Sandberg is miffed.

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I want this to be a documentary, thanks. I can't read a whole book on this depraved, motley crew.

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Anonymous wrote:What??

Wynn-Williams is aghast to discover that Sandberg has instructed her 26-year-old assistant to buy lingerie for both of them, budget be damned. (The total cost is $13,000.) During a long drive in Europe, the assistant and Sandberg take turns sleeping in each other’s laps, stroking each other’s hair. On the 12-hour flight home on a private jet, a pajama-clad Sandberg claims the only bed on the plane and repeatedly demands that Wynn-Williams “come to bed.” Wynn-Williams demurs. Sandberg is miffed.

What the effed up BS. Jeez

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Sandberg is so banal that she’s fascinating. It all comes down to not being pretty or admired enough, and wanted to take on the life force of someone more attractive. The success she had made her extremely wealthy, she’s a mother, and it’s not enough. She has no ideas, no philosophy, no meaning. It’s just use use use take take take destroy destroy destroy and be indifferent to the meaning of everything she does. She is absolutely a sociopath in the make of Zuck and Musk.

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Anonymous wrote:Sandberg is so banal that she’s fascinating. It all comes down to not being pretty or admired enough, and wanted to take on the life force of someone more attractive. The success she had made her extremely wealthy, she’s a mother, and it’s not enough. She has no ideas, no philosophy, no meaning. It’s just use use use take take take destroy destroy destroy and be indifferent to the meaning of everything she does. She is absolutely a sociopath in the make of Zuck and Musk.

It was rumored that the character of Laurie in Silicon Valley (the 40-something female exec) was modeled after Sandberg. Her character is both robotic and has absolutely zero boundaries!

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The book is actually really funny even though it’s horrifying, kind of like Silicon Valley. Really enjoying it as a fellow survivor of toxic workplaces!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What??

Wynn-Williams is aghast to discover that Sandberg has instructed her 26-year-old assistant to buy lingerie for both of them, budget be damned. (The total cost is $13,000.) During a long drive in Europe, the assistant and Sandberg take turns sleeping in each other’s laps, stroking each other’s hair. On the 12-hour flight home on a private jet, a pajama-clad Sandberg claims the only bed on the plane and repeatedly demands that Wynn-Williams “come to bed.” Wynn-Williams demurs. Sandberg is miffed.

Wait I must know: is the assistant male or female

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I'm thoroughly confused I thought facebook and mark zuckerburg blocked Trump on facebook, hide anything promoting him to help the dems and hillary win.

Now they're "friends" and he was at the inauguration and kissing trumps bum. I don't get any of this but I do know it's all very shady.

Someone please explain this to me like I'm five.