Convinced in 2009 that Facebook was going to improve human connections around the world, Sarah Wynn-Williams pitched herself to the company as a political diplomat, finally securing a role with them when protests organized via the platform led to the Arab Spring. Seven years later she found herself watching hopelessly as Facebook ‘sucked up to authoritarian regimes like China’s and casually misled the public’. In a memoir that Meta fought to prevent her from promoting, Wynn-Williams reveals how her eyes were gradually opened to a culture in which productivity was valorized and leadership operated amorally, all while the platform rose from a niche network to one with influence over elections and regimes around the world.
The #1 global bestseller with a new foreword for paperbackA Book of the Year for Audible, The Times, Financial Times, The New York Times, Time, Cosmopolitan, The Economist, Spectator and more
Shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2025
Shortlisted for the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025
Winner of the Blueprint Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025
'How else to put this? Bloody hell' - The Guardian
'Devastating . . . Funny . . . Highly enjoyable' - The Times
'Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome' - Financial Times
Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook believing the company could change things for the better. Instead, what she encountered over seven years was so shocking that Meta obtained a legal order to silence her.
Now you can read her award-winning story. Candid and entertaining, Wynn-Williams' account pulls back the curtain on Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the global elite. She exposes the true cost of Silicon Valley's ambition, from outrageous schemes cooked up on private jets to the alarming consequences of Facebook's aggressive pursuit of global dominance.
Careless People is an ordinary woman's gripping and darkly funny memoir that will forever change how you view the technology that runs our lives - and the unchecked power of those who control it.
'A Bridget Jones's Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations' - The Times
'Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it's the one about him' - Marina Hyde
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