Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Idealism

An explosive dispatch from someone who had a front-row seat to the inner workings of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People takes readers inside Meta’s board rooms, private jets, and meetings with heads of state, revealing the appetites, excesses, and priorities of executives Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Joel Kaplan. Wynn-Williams paints a portrait of this group as profoundly flawed, self-interested, and careless human beings, callously indifferent to the price others would pay for their own enrichment. With an outsider’s perspective, she watched as the more power they grasped, the less responsible they became, with far-reaching consequences that continue to this day.

Among other never-before-told bombshell revelations, Wynn-Williams details the previously unreported lengths to which Mark Zuckerberg went to convince the Chinese Communist Party to allow Meta to operate in China, including providing briefings to CCP officials on new technologies like artificial intelligence, developing bespoke censorship tools with the CCP, and making efforts to hide Meta’s cooperation with the CCP from the United States Congress.

Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences
this has for all of us.