Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

In Careless People, former Facebook policy director Sarah Wynn Williams offers a gripping insider account of how one of the world’s most powerful companies lost its way. What began as an idealistic mission to connect people across the globe slowly devolved into a culture of unchecked ambition, moral compromise, and calculated silence. With sharp clarity and wry insight, Wynn Williams recalls high-stakes diplomacy, internal power struggles, and the troubling decisions that placed profit above principle during some of the platform’s darkest moments. From the mishandling of global crises to the internal retaliation against dissenting voices, she reveals how Facebook’s leadership ignored the warning signs, enabling widespread harm while shielding themselves from accountability. Her candid reflections on figures like Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg offer a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a tech giant under siege. Careless People is not just a memoir but a searing indictment of a compa