A controversial new book about Facebook serves as a window into our current moment, a field guide to tech autocracy.
Even the book’s most personal anecdotes speak to the power and authority that tech executives, their platforms, and their massive fortunes wield over so many. David Rowe
Perhaps the biggest surprise of Careless People, the new tell-all memoir by the former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, is that a book chronicling the social network’s missteps and moral bankruptcy can still make news in 2025.
The tech giant, now named Meta, seems determined to make this happen itself. The company filed an emergency motion in court to halt the book’s continued publication, and in numerous statements, Meta’s communications team has derided it as the work of a disgruntled ex-employee.
