Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Politics & Power

Facebook's senior leadership was warned about Myanmar again and again and declined to act, according to someone inside the room. Wynn-Williams was a director of global public policy from 2011 to 2017. Her memoir covers Myanmar, a secret China project, the 2016 election and her own firing, and Meta has fought it hard.

Core ideas
  • Myanmar: Repeated internal escalations about content tied to ethnic cleansing went unanswered at the top.
  • Project Aldrin: Facebook built censorship tools to get access to the Chinese market.
  • Contested ground: The misconduct accounts involving Kaplan and Sandberg are disputed by Meta, which won an emergency arbitration ruling barring her from promoting the book.
Published2025
Pages382
ISBN9781250391230
ReadFeb 2026

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