“Careless People”, the book that puts in the broth and Zuckerberg does not want you to read

Back in 2019, when Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech at the University of Georgetown, the Meta CEO boasted that Facebook, the social network on whose foundations its phenomenal business emporium was built, had seen the light to be a platform consecrated to freedom of expression. However, it seems that Zuckerberg has an inevitably partial vision of the sacrosanct freedom of expression because, six years after the goal CEO pronounced those words, The leading company is trying to gag a former employee at all costs who has just published a prodigal book in anecdotes that definitely leave the Facebook and Instagram matrix very badly.

Sarah Wynn-Williams She was director of Global Facebook policy in the period between 2011 and 2017, at which time the American multinational decided to put her with legs on the street, and She is the author of Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealisma book that left the shell on the other side of the puddle on March 11. The title of the book, which has logically seated burning horn within the target, refers to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsbywhich refers to the wealthy characters that star in the novel as “Careless People” (something like people inconsiderate in Spanish). In the eyes of Wynn-Williams, many of his former bosses in the finish line, including Sheryl Sandberg, who was Coo of the company, and also Mark Zuckerberg himself are deeply inconsiderate people That, as in Fitzgerald’s famous novel, they usually “destroy things and creatures to then concentrate on their own money.”

Meta, a company that defines itself as an adalid of freedom of expression, now wants to silence an ex -employed

Although Facebook was allegedly born as an adalid of freedom of expression (always according to Zuckerberg), the truth is that Last week target decided to take legal actions against Wynn-Williams arguing that the author of Careless People The confidentiality and not contempt agreement had been broken in his day when he was still professionally linked to the company.

And last Wednesday Meta effectively obtained emergency arbitration award that urged Wynn-Williams to stop the book promotion and stop making derogatory and critical comments about its former employer. However, and as long as the editorial of the book, Flatiron Books, and its Matrix Macmillan Publishers are not part of this case of arbitration, Careless People Keep up for sale.

Among the most rugged revelations that Wynn-Williams made in his book, he emphasizes that Sheryl Sandberg allegedly asked his assistant to buy Lingerie valued at $ 13,000 both for the goal of the goal and for its assistant. In addition, on a flight that took Sandberg to the United States from Davos (Switzerland) The ex -chief of goal operations would have used the only bed available on the plane And I would have received Wynn-Williams, visibly pregnant at that time, to share a bed with her.

The book also includes more salary details. AND Joel Kaplanthat he was vice president of Global Meta policy and direct head of Wynn-Williams, He would have been off with several inappropriate comments aimed at his subordinated when he was pregnant. According to Wynn-Williams, Kaplan would have described his appearance as “seductive” when he was pregnant. Kaplan’s reproachable comments did not end here, much less and when Wynn-Williams informed his superior that he could not work during his maternity leave because he was still bleeding due to the surgery to which they had subjected her during childbirth, her boss would have asked her where she was exactly bleeding. The author of Careless People He accused Kaplan of sexual harassment and a goal later began an investigation that included interviews with 17 witnesses and finally exonerated the Vice President of Global Meta.

In the book the figure of Mark Zuckerberg does not go too well stopped. According to Wynn-Williams, Zuckerberg is obsessed, apparently, Andrew Jackson, who is in his opinion the best president of the United States in history, and that is why he precisely collects wines from the time when he was president of the North American country (of the 30s of the 19th century). Zuckerberg would also be an obvious man in having a “tribe” of children around him and would also not know that his employees will invariably win in the Settlers of Catan board game.

The controversial plan that Facebook would have permeated to go in the Chinese market

These personal data are, however, of a rather Baladí nature if we compare them with the details that Wynn-Williams offers in his book about Facebook attempts to break into the Chinese market. Under the baton of Zuckerberg, the social network would have been willing to do anything to silence potentially critical comments and comply with the censorship of the Chinese Communist Party to potentially win access to a market of more than 1.4 billion people.

Wynn-Williams says that Facebook would have even recruited a “chief editor” in order to eliminate posts of an unacceptable nature and share without pruritus the data of its users with the Government of China.

Goal insists that Careless People es An amalgam of outdated data on goal, complaints previously made against the company and false accusations against its executives. The American multinational also emphasizes that he terminated the Wynn-Williams contract for “her poor performance and toxic behavior” and puts a relief that her employee would have been paid by activists who are against finishing to disseminate falsehoods over the company.

The fact that Meta is trying to silence Wynn-Williams and his book does not leave in any case in a very good place the company led by Mark Zuckerbergthat only a couple of months ago, when he announced the controversial replacement of the “Fact-Checking” with the community’s notes, he said he implemented this change with the last goal of breaking a spear in favor of freedom of expression.

Be that as it was, and despite the denoded target efforts to try to put sticks on the wheels to Careless Peoplethe truth is that The work already occupies third place on the list of “Best Sellers” of Amazon. It seems, therefore, that the fact that Meta wanted to run a thick veil about Wynn-Williams’s book (so that no one dares in him his gaze) has only given wings to the interest of the people for what is told there.