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Elena Rossini ⁂

Thanks to the magic of the Streisand effect, I just heard about #CarelessPeople - a book by former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Apparently the company is FREAKING OUT and seeking legal ways to stop its promotion. I can see why. This article about it in the Times made my jaw drop: web.archive.org/web/2025031022

I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.

🔗: bookshop.org/p/books/careless-

Edit: included non-paywalled link (thanks @gemlog)

Facebook’s C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg rings the Nasdaq’s opening bell from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on May 18, 2012, the day of the company’s initial public offering, while Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s C.O.O., looks on.
The New York Times · Book Review: ‘Careless People,’ by Sarah Wynn-WilliamsBy Jennifer Szalai
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Elena Rossini ⁂

An update: last night I started reading #CarelessPeople and I cannot emphasize enough HOW GOOD it is. A real page-turner.

No wonder #Meta executives are trying to shut down its promotional tour. They come across as shallow, greedy and irresponsible.

The author wrote in the prelude that working there was "like watching a bunch of fourteen-year-olds who’ve been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money, as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them." 🔥

A photo showing the book cover of Sarah Wynn-Williams' book "Careless People". Under the title there is the subheader: "A cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism" and a photo of a blue rounded square with a shark fin emerging from it
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@_elena It's not a page turner for me, I have issues with not throwing my ereader across the room after every five pages or so.

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Elena Rossini ⁂

@xgebi I know! On the one hand it’s making me furious… on the other, it’s motivating me at every page to keep promoting the Fediverse and getting as many people as possible away from Meta’s toxic empire

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