By skyforbes 
Sarah Wynn-Williams — Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Value for money
6/10
Year, Price, Pages, Cover design
2025, Macmillan USA; $16,45; 400 pages (including text itself in 48 chapters with prologue and epilogue, plus Dedication, Epigraph, Acknowledgements, About the Author sections)
I read the Kindle version
5 sentences about the book
Sarah Wynn-Williams is a New Zealand–born lawyer, diplomat, and former Facebook executive who worked at the company from 2011 to 2017, becoming the highest-ranking whistleblower to emerge from Meta after working closely with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. In 2025, she published Careless People, a bestselling memoir that exposes Meta’s toxic culture, ethical compromises, and entanglement with government censorship.
The book is not written by a professional author or journalist, and the uneven rhythm of the narration reflects that. Its strongly personal lens blends stories from Wynn-Williams’s private life with her years inside Facebook — a combination that can feel unpolished, yet also lends the account a raw and disarming authenticity.
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