A review by wahistorian
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

challenging dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this book, whether you’re a Facebook user or not, because Sarah Wynn-Williams’s book explains so much about the world we’re living in. She traces her journey from idealistic social media-user to skeptic, informed by her intense experience working as Facebook’s international policy expert. Chapters on Facebook’s expansion around the world, relations with China, the failure of internet.org, the 2016 election, and genocide in Myanmar, among other issues reveal an increasingly cynical, numbers-oriented management. Shocking stories behavior she witnessed in the party of Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Stanberg, and other Facebook leaders characterize them as privileged, insulated and insular, and willfully ignorant about the world. Elon Musk’s behavior at DOGE suggests that if these techno boys are the future or our country, we are in deep trouble.