Sarah Wynn-Williams’s account of her seven years as a Facebook executive is number one on the New York Times bestseller list and has flown off the shelves in the UK

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Meta exposé tops bestseller chart despite company’s attempt to ban its promotion Sarah Wynn-Williams’s account of her seven years as a Facebook executive is number one on the New York Times bestseller list and has flown off the shelves in the UK

An exposé by a former employee of Meta has become a bestseller despite the social media company banning the author from promoting the book.

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, topped the New York Times bestseller chart and will be fourth on the Sunday Times nonfiction hardback chart this weekend.

The book “sold a staggering 1,000 hardbacks a day in the first three days on sale in the UK, despite Meta’s legal tactics to silence the book’s author”, said Joanna Prior, CEO of publisher Pan Macmillan. “This early success is a triumph against Meta’s attempt to stop the publication of this book.”

  • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    Picked up the audiobook, narrated by the author herself. I’m about 9 hours into the book, and nothing has really shocked me, more reaffirmed my thoughts on tech companies as a whole.

    Every time I see Zuck talk in public, I can easily picture myself in his shoes: a software engineer way out of his depth. The fact that the engineers rule Facebook is exactly how I would run a tech company, obviously there has to be business people but I’d want my friends and the people like me to be the ones I’d deal with most and the ones making decisions.

    I’m at the point where zuck is finding out from his senior execs the role Facebook played in Trump’s win. And then him getting a taste of real power, not just billionaire CEO power, as the world leaders start sucking up to him knowing how big a role FB will play in their own countries elections.

    I like the book so far, and the author really paints a picture of who she is as a person. So you easily understand how she’s feeling during every part of this. She went into the business wanting to save the world, and while Facebook had the ability to be that, the senior execs clearly had a different goal in mind, alot of them came from Google and probably left because they didn’t click with the “Don’t be Evil” thing. I think Google had to drop that too because all these executives are just naturally evil.