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

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Anonymous wrote:In other words, everyone at the top of these tech giants is Langley or Mossad?

Pretty much.

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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.

Whoa!!

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Ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg ‘lied’ about nearly boarding 2013 flight that crash-landed in San Francisco: book
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg fabricated a claim that she was planning to take an Asiana Airlines flight that ended up crash-landing in San Francisco more than a decade ago, killing 3 and injuring nearly 200, according to one of her ex-subordinates.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked under Sandberg for six years as director of public policy when the company was known as Facebook, alleged in her new memoir that CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s former No. 2 “lie[d] about narrowly missing” Asiana Airlines Flight 214.

“People don’t lie about narrowly missing plane crashes, do they?” Wynn-Williams wrote in her memoir titled “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.”

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OP if you get it and read it please report back!

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I got it from Libby surprisingly quickly, and it was a terrific weekend read. I thought I would just skim it for the boldface names, but I ended up reading it through and learned a lot about how big tech interacts with governments (trying to extract every penny out of the country without paying taxes or following national rules to the extent possible).

The stuff about Sheryl Sandberg and her lingerie and requests to sleep in the same bed as colleagues got the most media stuff, but to me the passages about Mark Zuckerberg were the most interesting. He started out as the quintessential engineer and seemed surprisingly sweet and geeky not having any interest in politics and having to be forced into meeting heads of states, and then got inspired into thinking he could be President and then got disillusioned again when Obama and a lot of other world leaders called him out for not discouraging fake news/posts intended to inflame and how he let the Chinese government have access to all the facebook data. Joel Kaplan comes off the worst in this book as a ignoramus sexist predator and Sheryl is a charismatic and bright but shallow and self-interested mean girl, despite her Lean in stuff.

The stuff about how they sent the author to Zika hot spots while pregnant while trying to protect Mark from being outdoors anywhere in Latin America while trying to conceive were kind of funny/awful.

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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.

Intel foot soldiers.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Whoa!!

Why didn’t she sue her creepy predator ass?

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I started it on audio book ... it's pretty good!

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Most of the book is pretty sad, particularly the end. The author tries to get Facebook to remove the incendiary and false content that is inflaming hatred against Muslims in Myanmar but Facebook declines to do so.

Author reports Joel Kaplan grinding against her at the office party and making sexual comments and his history of making lewd jokes and harassing her while she’s ill recovering from a difficult birth while on maternity leave and Facebook clears him and fires her. Sheryl Sandberg does nothing to support her despite witnesses to Kaplan’s conduct because Kaplan is her ex-boyfriend.

Fittingly, Kaplan sits directly behind Brett Kavanaugh as he is accused of sexual assault at his Supreme Court hearing and throws Kavanaugh a party at his mansion once he’s confirmed. He’s now Zuckerberg’s chief policy guide in the Trump era.

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I finished the audio book. About 10 minutes in I stopped to see who the narrator was because I thought she was pretty good and wanted to make note. It was the author.

Book/audiobook is well worth the read. Thoroughly entertaining. And for anyone wondering what can we do as our country implodes - cancel your facebook and instagram accounts, stop shopping at Whole Foods and Amazon, and please do not buy a tesla. Same with Apple. Same with Google. We're so f*cked.

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It's number 3 on the Amazon best seller list despite Meta's efforts to squash it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's number 3 on the Amazon best seller list despite Meta's efforts to squash it.

Definite Streisand effect

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's number 3 on the Amazon best seller list despite Meta's efforts to squash it.

Definite Streisand effect

I read it, and it's a surprisingly good book. Just pretty awful when it talks about how indifferent Facebook was to the fact that its platform was being used to spread lies supporting genocide in places like Myanmar.

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I’m listening to it now. If you like this, be sure to read Broken Code too.


Get off Facebook and instagram.

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/tech/meta-whistleblower-sarah-wynn-williams-response-congress/index.html

Former Facebook executive-turned-whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says Meta is blocking her from speaking to Congress about her experiences at the company.

This arises from arbitration proceedings with the company after Wynn-Williams published her memoir “Careless People,” detailing her time at the social media giant, earlier this month.

Meta moved quickly to stop her from promoting or discussing the book, which it claimed contained “out-of-date” claims and “false accusations.” On the day of the book’s publication, the company filed an arbitration demand stating that the claims in the book violate a voluntary non-disparagement agreement she signed upon leaving the company. A day later, the arbitrator temporarily ordered her not to make any “disparaging, critical or otherwise detrimental comments” related to Meta and to stop promoting the book.

That order is now preventing Wynn-Williams from responding to requests from lawmakers in several countries to discuss her time at the company, her lawyers wrote in a response in the arbitration proceedings obtained by CNN.

“Members of the United States Congress, the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and the Parliament of the European Union have requested to speak with Ms. Wynn-Williams on the issues of public concern raised in her memoir,” including the company’s interactions with the Chinese government and Meta’s alleged harms to teen girls, the document, filed Tuesday, states. But under the order, Wynn-Williams “appears to be blocked from speaking” with those lawmakers.