Excerpt from #CarelessPeople 
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« When we start to run into politicians who put up roadblocks to our expansion, the growth team is quick to suggest that we “juice” the algorithm to help them bolster their Facebook presence. The way they put that? “Let’s dial up the algorithm to give politicians some love.” »
BTW Javi Olivan, who led the growth team at the time, has been elevated to the role of Meta’s COO (since the departure of Sheryl Sandberg).
Update no. 2:
Yesterday my 4-year-old woke up at 7am thus thwarting my plans to read #CarelessPeople for a good hour.
So today I woke up at 6am to resume reading the book. It’s THAT GOOD.
The leaders at #Meta have been shockingly irresponsible in their decisions since the early days. All they care about? Gathering data and influence and making big bucks. I’m so glad I got out of all their platforms and I’m on the #Fediverse instead.
History books won’t be kind to Zuck, Sandberg et al.
Is this what they call the Streisand Effect?
My local library has ~1200 holds on copies of Careless People:
A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
by Wynn-Williams, Sarah
Good Job, Meta / Facebook
Guess it’s up readers to promote the book in the author’s place then. I support it and her and recommend getting a copy.
@antonproitzelhaimer Wouldn't it be funny if the court ruling got the book far more free publicity than the author's efforts could ever have managed?
Anyway the prologue is an anecdote about a former Canadian PM rudely snubbing Zuckerberg at the Summit of the Americas in 2015, so I'm in!
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." 
"Most days, working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli and way more 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."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/meta-takes-aim-at-ex-employees-memoir-careless-people/
It is kinda weird seeing a book critical of the leadership of one of the main players in the new broligarchy get blocked from publication by the recently-realigned US courts: https://gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerberg-doesnt-want-you-to-read-this-book-2000575582
It is still available for sale in a few places though — I recommend bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/careless-people-sarah-winn-williams-9781035065929/7826455?ean=9781035065929
Finished reading Careless People today. Not sure what possessed me to go through with it, but here we are. Mostly re-disgusted with all the behavior we've seen & read about-- & been subjected to over the years, but this was a wild first-hand account.
Some words:
Immature
Exploitative
Bumbling
Evasive
Petulant
Misogynistic
Abusive
Bumbling
Predatory
Lethal Carelessness
I may need to wander through the woods for a week to detox.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223436601-careless-people
"..the Facebook she describes is not run by careless people, not really, but rather by wittingly amoral ones who use technical genius and business acumen to profit from human vulnerability"
#Facebook #Zuckerberg #CarelessPeople #Oligarchy
Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work by Sarah Wynn-Williams review – a former disciple unfriends Facebook | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/16/careless-people-a-story-of-where-i-used-to-work-by-sarah-wynn-williams-review-a-former-disciple-unfriends-facebook
Care less Capos https://web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html
“…she finds a female agency worker having a seizure on the office floor, surrounded by bosses who are ignoring her. The scales falling from her eyes become a blizzard.” These people, she decides, just “didn’t give a #Fuck”.
“Post Free-Speech” Fact-Check please
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/13/meta-apparently-really-wants-everyone-to-read-this-book-by-trying-to-ban-it/
#BooksOfMastodon #Capitalism
#carelessPeople #enshittification #Meta
#NASDAQ
I'm about a third of the way into the book, and it's pretty obvious why Facebook wants to block promotion. Zuckerberg comes off as a mal-adjusted adolescent (no surprise), and Sheryl Sandberg is shown to be a randomly explosive psycho.
#Facebook
#CarelessPeople
@gemlog
Article in the NYT about the book about facebook that meta is working to suppress.
If you want help getting off of facebook, instagram, threads and whatsapp, let me know; I’d be happy to help.
@_elena @gemlog I heard about it in a similar fashion and after work drove to my favorite local bookshop to pick up a copy. Stopped after reading three chapters, but only because I have to be up very early tomorrow. Fascinating (and well written) so far. #CarelessPeople
Great article about the book on all the dirt happening at Facebook
#makesocialssocialagain @marleenstikker #facebook #carelesspeople
It's the Streisand Effect, I don't make the rules, you HAVE to boost the stories about it!
Looks like an interesting book, remember NOT to buy it from Amazon.
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: https://web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html
I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.
Edit: included non-paywalled link (thanks @gemlog)
looks like meta/facebook has just learned about the Streisand Effect when they tried to block the promotion of "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
I went to college with some of these meta people, and, gods, I am not surprised by the stuff I'm reading in the book at all.
Here is a link to the book's publisher page. Have a read/listen.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250391230/carelesspeople/
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