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Ex-Facebook director pens ‘explosive’ memoir about the ‘careless’ people running Meta

How Mark Zuckerberg tried to get Facebook into China and Meta’s ‘profoundly flawed’ leading trio described by ex-global public policy chief

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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He, Meta executive Joel Kaplan and former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg are painted as “careless human beings” in an “explosive” book by a former Meta executive out this month. Photo: AFP
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An insider account being billed as an “explosive dispatch” about “seven critical years” at Facebook/ Meta will be published next week.

Careless People is scheduled to appear on March 11. The memoir is written by Meta’s former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, who left what was then Facebook in 2018.

“Careless People takes readers inside Meta’s board rooms, private jets, and meetings with heads of state, revealing the appetites, excesses, blind spots, and priorities of executives Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Joel Kaplan,” an announcement by publisher Flatiron Books reads in part.

“Wynn-Williams paints a portrait of this group as profoundly flawed, self-interested, and careless human beings, callously indifferent to the price others would pay for their own enrichment.”

The cover of Wynn-Williams’ book. Photo: Flatiron via AP)
The cover of Wynn-Williams’ book. Photo: Flatiron via AP)

According to Flatiron, Wynn-Williams will describe in detail Zuckerberg’s efforts to allow Meta in China and her own efforts to get the company to monitor hate speech and misinformation on social media.

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