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Elena Rossini ⁂

Thanks to the magic of the Streisand effect, I just heard about #CarelessPeople - a book by former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Apparently the company is FREAKING OUT and seeking legal ways to stop its promotion. I can see why. This article about it in the Times made my jaw drop: web.archive.org/web/2025031022

I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.

🔗: bookshop.org/p/books/careless-

Edit: included non-paywalled link (thanks @gemlog)

Facebook’s C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg rings the Nasdaq’s opening bell from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on May 18, 2012, the day of the company’s initial public offering, while Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s C.O.O., looks on.
The New York Times · Book Review: ‘Careless People,’ by Sarah Wynn-WilliamsBy Jennifer Szalai
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[Facebook] 'Content moderation was painfully (and lethally) slow, she writes, because the company relied on one contractor who spoke Burmese: a “Burmese guy” based in Dublin, multiple time zones away from both Myanmar and Facebook’s California headquarters. “Myanmar demonstrates better than anywhere the havoc Facebook can wreak when it’s truly ubiquitous.”'

Mar 13, 2025, 09:34 PM·Public
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