Meta Director General Mark Zuckerberg is a “careless” executive who sought to persuade China to let his company operate on the continent by helping him develop censorship tools and strengthen her artificial intelligence skills – all the time hiding those efforts from Congress, according to a new memory.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta employee who worked on Facebook for seven years before the social media giant re-raised as Meta, is the author of “Careless People: A Warning Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism”.
The book detailed a “rotten company culture” claimed that included “Misogyny’s shocking account and double standards” under Zuckerberg and the ex. 2 Shel Sandberg, who were described as “eagerly indifferent to the price that others would pay for their enrichment.”
Wynn-Williams, former director of global public policy on Facebook, left the company in 2018.
“We haven’t seen the book, but this former employee was interrupted in 2017 and an investigation at the time revealed that she made false claims,” spokesman Meta Post told.
“As Mark himself said at a television address in 2019,”[He] They wanted our services in China … and we worked hard to make this happen. But we could never come to an agreement for what we would need for us to act there. ‘That is why we do not operate our services today in China,’ added Meta spokesman.
Described by the publisher Flation Books as “a deeply personal story why and how things have gone so terribly wrong in the last decade,” Kujtim claims to shed light on the leadership and culture of the company.
The book is also being published by Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom, whose website calls the book “An Explosive Shipment by someone who had a first line for the internal work of one of the most influential companies in the planet”.
Wynn-Williams “gets readers inside the Board’s rooms, private aircraft and meetings with state heads, revealing the appetites, surpluses, blind points and advantages of Mark Zuckerberg leaders, Shel Sandberg and Joel Kaplan.”
According to Pan Macmillan, the trio of executives is portrayed as “deep human beings, interested in themselves and careless”.
The more power the three leaders gathered, “the less responsible became, with widespread consequences that continue to this day.”
Pan Macmillan promises “previously reported lengths, to which Mark Zuckerberg went to persuade the Chinese Communist Party to allow Meta to operate in China.”
According to Wynn-Williams, these efforts included “providing announcements to CCP officials on new technologies such as artificial intelligence, developing blessed CCP censorship tools, and making efforts to conceal Meta CCP cooperation from the United States Congress.”
Wynn-Williams also aims to blame the company to stop the “genocide lies” overseas, as well as for “shocking accounts of workplace and misogyny”.
The book also highlights Sandberg to not address “the grueling requirements and the humiliation of the working mother” while she was gaining “international appreciation for encouraging women to” faint “”.
The book is currently available for preorder through retailers such as bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
In particular, its release was kept under narrow coils, with Flation notifying the book less than a week before publication.
Amazon’s ranking initially carried the unclear title of the country holder “-Autor-author-re-reaard-March”.
Zuckerberg has made numerous efforts to expand the presence of Facebook in China, despite the country’s strict internet regulations and the platform that has been blocked there since 2009.
He led Chinese officials teaching Mandar, meeting with government leaders and even running through the Beijing Tiananmen Square on a widely published visit.
However, despite these efforts, Facebook was unable to gain entry into the Chinese market, as the government maintained its strict control over foreign technology companies and digital censorship.
In 2016, the New York Times revealed that Facebook had created software that would allow a third party, likely a Chinese partner, to print certain posts to appear in specific geographical areas.
The vehicle was created to implement China’s strict internet rules, but its existence sparked internal debates on Facebook, with some employees expressing concerns about its implications for free speech.
After all, Facebook never started the vehicle, and its efforts to enter China remained unsuccessful.
In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Zuckerberg said the company’s refusal to bow to China’s censorship demand is one of the factors that led to its constant absence from the country.
“Oni one of the reasons we do not operate Facebook, Instagram or other services in China,” Zuckerberg said in the 2019 speech.
“I wanted our services in China because I believe in connecting the whole world and I thought we can help create a more open society.”
Zuckerberg said he “worked hard to make this happen. But we could never come to an agreement for what we would need for us to act there, and they never let us enter.”
“And now we have more freedom to speak and stand for the values in which we believe and fight for free expression all over the world.”
Wynn-Williams, a diplomat and policy expert, has also served as the main negotiator for the United Nations for the responsibility of biosuria, according to its bio at the World Economic Forum.
Sandberg joined Facebook as the main operating official in 2008, becoming a leading figure in turning the company into a global advertising power plant.
Before Facebook, she held Google’s leading roles and served as Chief of Staff for the US Treasury Department under President Clinton. On Facebook, she was useful in escalating her advertising business and forming its corporate culture, often protecting gender equality in the workplace.
In 2013, Sandberg published “Lean in: Women, the work and the will to lead”, which became a bestseller and prompted discussions on women’s leadership and career progress.
The book encouraged women to take initiative in their professional lives, but also faced criticism of bypassing the structural barriers that many women face.
During her stay, Facebook faced consideration on data intimacy issues, misinformation and its role in political controversy, including Cambridge Analytica’s scandal. Sandberg defended the company, but later admitted to mistakes.
In June 2022, she announced her departure from Meta – leaving after 14 years. As she mentioned the desire to focus on philanthropy and personal projects, reports suggested internal tensions and growing regulatory pressures played a role in its exit.
Kaplan is the Vice President of the Global Public Policy of Meta and a former Deputy Chief of the White House Staff under President George W. Bush.
In Meta, he has played a key role in shaping the company’s political strategy, often defending conservative perspectives and affecting content moderation policies.
A Sandberg spokesman refused to comment.
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