What if the company you worked for enabled a genocide and then your former boss sued you when you wrote a book talking about it?
This is the memoir of What if the company you worked for enabled a genocide and then your former boss sued you when you wrote a book talking about it?
This is the memoir of a former United Nations diplomat who ended up handling international policy at Facebook (now Meta) for nearly a decade.
I found out Mark Zuckerberg has sued the author of this book to keep her from promoting it in the US, so naturally, I had to read it.
This book paints a stark image of what happens when you give an insane amounts of influence to people who don’t have the integrity or the maturity to handle it.
I knew Facebook had played a role in certain events in Myanmar, but Wynn-Williams goes into much more detail describing a sheer level of incompetence and utter disregard for human life at the company that allowed it.
Other heinous things this book accuses Facebook of include: 1. Knowingly sending a pregnant employee into the middle of the Zika virus outbreak. 2. Systematic sexual harassment from top executives. 3. Brokering user data to the Chinese government in exchange for access to the Chinese market. (Also, not just Chinese user data, which is bad enough, but the company was allegedly offering international user data, too.) 4. And lots more I don’t have time to cover here.
I don’t know if I could say this book was shocking, but it was very upsetting.
I get that we only have one side of the story here, but I’ve worked with Facebook’s ad platform for about eight years now and everything she describes about that checks out with my experience with their site, with their support team, and with what I’ve been told about how they treat their employees.
I really want as many people as possible to read this. ...more
I deeply enjoyed the complex intrigue and politics. It really captures how complicated allegiances and aOne of the better books I've read in a while.
I deeply enjoyed the complex intrigue and politics. It really captures how complicated allegiances and alliances can be and how sometimes in the real world you have to work with people you don't like.
I LOVE how Jocelyn is a competent and practical character. She shows a level of political savvy I don't usually see in female characters.
When we meet Robert, he's a misogynistic jerk and the author puts him through some industrial-grade character growth that is both believable and satisfying. He does cheat on Jocelyn at one point, but I felt like it worked for his character arc and him maturing enough to acknowledge it was wrong shows massive development on his part.
I also think Stuart did a good job depicting the ✨vibe✨ surrounding medieval attitudes toward religion and that helps really ground us in the setting.
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