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Meta's committment to 'free expression' is facing scruitny over its attempts to silence one of their own after a former executive-turned-whistleblower levelled damning allegations against Mark Zuckerberg and top management in a tell-all memoir. Sarah Wynn-Williams' book “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism” includes unverified yet scandalous allegations against the leadership and the company culture based on her experiences as a former director of global public policy at Facebook.

The author has taken on Facebook's top brass, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg with a reference from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and compared them to the 'careless people' from the book - those who cause mayhem and leave others to bear the consequences. From failing to stop “genocide-fueling lies” overseas as well as shocking accounts of workplace "harassment and misogyny", Wynn-Williams allegations have sent Meta officials scrambling to halt the book's promotions. Here are the key allegations made by the whistleblower and the figures involved.

1. Zuckerberg helped China develop censorship tools, hid CCP ties from Congress

In perhaps one of the most serious allegations, Sarah Wynn-Williams claimed that Mark Zuckerberg tried to convince China to let his company operate on the mainland by helping it develop censorship tools, all while concealing this from US Congress. According to Wynn-Williams, those...

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