Summary

A former Facebook executive, Wynn-Williams, exposes the company’s toxic culture in her new book Careless People.

She alleges Mark Zuckerberg “lied” to Congress about Facebook’s China dealings and describes COO Sheryl Sandberg as manipulative, detailing an uncomfortable incident where Sandberg repeatedly invited her to bed on a private jet.

She also accuses Facebook of enabling election misinformation and failing to curb hate speech in Myanmar.

The whistleblower portrays Facebook as “an autocracy of one” where Zuckerberg makes decisions that align with business interests rather than ethical considerations.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    571·
    3 days ago

    Zuckerberg makes decisions that align with business interests rather than ethical considerations.

    Noooo waaay

    • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 days ago

      Can that even happen in a capitalist society? I thought the pursuit of profit was supposed to fix everything. It almost feels like thefacebook doesn’t have its users’, or even society’s, best interests at heart. If only someone could have made a full length feature film warning everyone about this 15 years ago!

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    As somebody who left Facebook a decade ago I didn’t need told the company sucks. Feed used to consist of family members complaining about being temp banned for Nazi shit back when that wasn’t actively encouraged, or of course the aforementioned Nazi shit. Like, yeah, of course you got a temp ban for calling people directly things I’d feel uncomfortable repeating out loud in an empty room. Edit: like I feel gross repeating some of my various uncle’s bullshit in my own head.