Facebook’s secrets, by the insider who Zuckerberg tried to silence

Sarah Wynn-Williams’s new memoir, Careless People , has been the talk of Silicon Valley this past week .

It is a shocking, darkly funny and highly critical exposé of the six years she spent at the tech giant.

She describes a company short on accountability, with a set of leaders intoxicated by power.

Facebook parent company, Meta , obtained a temporary injunction from a US arbitrator preventing her from promoting the book.

Wynn-Williams was sent to the epicentre of the zika outbreak while pregnant.

She was in the room for discussions around Facebook ’s attempts to enter China .

In 2016 , a colleague, Diego Dzodan , was arrested in Brazil as WhatsApp refused to hand over data to the authorities in a drug-trafficking case.

In 2015 , Zuckerberg asked Xi Jinping if he would do honour him naming his unborn child’.

Myanmar is where Wynn-Williams thinks the “carelessness” of Facebook is most egregious.

In 2018 , UN human rights experts said Facebook had helped spread hate speech against Rohingya Muslims , about 25,000 of whom were slaughtered by the Burmese military and nationalists.