In her memoir, former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams accuses CEO Mark Zuckerberg of trying to gain Chinese market access by developing censorship tools and enhancing AI capabilities, while concealing these efforts from Congress. She also alleges a culture of misogyny and double standards at Meta under Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg.
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A new memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta employee titled "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism," alleges that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a "careless" executive who attempted to persuade China to allow his company to operate there by assisting in the development of censorship tools and enhancing its AI capabilities, while keeping these efforts hidden from Congress.
According to a report in NewYork Post, Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook for seven years before it rebranded as Meta, describes a "rotten company culture" under Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg, with "shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards." The book portrays the two executives as "callously indifferent" to the consequences others faced for their personal gain.
Meta responded to The NewYork Post, stating, "We haven't seen the book, but this former employee was terminated in 2017 and an investigation at that time found she made false claims." The spokesperson cited Zuckerberg's 2019 televised address, where he said, "[He] wanted our services in China … and worked hard to make this happen. But...
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