When a tech giant like Meta scrambles to silence a book, people tend to take notice.
And that’s exactly what’s happening with Careless People, an explosive insider account by former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Despite the company’s legal efforts to muzzle her, the book shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and is flying off shelves.
Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook (now Meta) from 2011 to 2017, pulls back the curtain on the company’s alleged toxic culture.
Big Claims Made In The Memoir
She claims longtime executive Joel Kaplan engaged in sexual harassment and that Meta once considered bending to Chinese censorship rules to break into the market.
But before she could even promote her book, an arbitration court—siding with Meta—ordered her to stay silent.
Meta insists the book is full of “false and defamatory” claims, calling it nothing more than outdated gossip from a disgruntled former employee.
The company also says Wynn-Williams violated a non-disparagement agreement.
Meanwhile, her publisher, Flatiron Books, stands by the work, slamming Meta’s “tactics to silence” the author.
And if Meta hoped their legal pushback would make this book disappear? It’s had the opposite effect.
With Careless People surging in sales, it seems people are more eager than ever to hear the story Meta doesn’t want told.
