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

Sarah Wynn-Williams

#1 From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absu...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Corey highlighted Wynn-Williams's book as an illustration of the Streisand effect, describing how attempts to suppress information can amplify interest.

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My first pick is Sarah Wynne Williams book Careless People and it's a great example of the Streisand effect that when a company tries to suppress something it brings it interest.

— Episode: Everything Wrong With the Internet and H...

Episode: Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix...

Corey highlighted Wynn-Williams's book as an illustration of the Streisand effect, describing how attempts to suppress information can amplify interest.

"

My first pick is Sarah Wynne Williams book Careless People and it's a great example of the Streisand effect that when a company tries to suppress something it brings it interest.

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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Honestly with Bari Weiss

This was Sarah Wynn-Williams's memoir detailing her nearly seven years at Facebook, which served as a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism within the company. The book offered an insider's account revealing the gap between Facebook's stated ideals and its actual operations focused on growth at any cost.

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The book is called Careless People, a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism.

— Episode: WATCH: Meet Sarah Wynn-Williams, Faceboo...

Episode: WATCH: Meet Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s Highes...

This was Sarah Wynn-Williams's memoir detailing her nearly seven years at Facebook, which served as a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism within the company. The book offered an insider's account revealing the gap between Facebook's stated ideals and its actual operations focused on growth at any cost.

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The book is called Careless People, a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism.

The memoir comes out today.

So you have just published this memoir called Careless People, and it is a, I think it's fair to say, pretty scathing critique of the time that you spent working at Facebook, both of the people you worked with, and sort of the gap between Facebook's professed mission and the way it actually functioned in the world.

And as far as I can tell, unless there's some enormous memoir I've never heard of, you're the highest ranking Facebook official employee to have ever written something like this.

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