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[quote=Anonymous]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.”[/quote]

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