'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence

Avicebron

Maybe we can start calling the Streisand effect the Careless People effect as a modern update and way to keep Zuckerino annoyed

d-cc

>Sarah Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under parent company Meta Platforms Inc., from 2011 until her firing in 2017. “Careless People” alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. I would have liked to learn about specific allegations of "cruel and otherwise disturbing" from the article, instead of leaving this completely ambiguous. If you know, you know.

ChrisArchitect

Most of the related discussion today: Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698684

bko

She was a Director of Global Public Policy from 2011 to 2017. Probably cleaned up. On the arbitration, they mentioned there was 300k in business expense reimbursement. Signed an NDA, went through arbitration, got paid out pretty nicely and now wants to cash in 10 years after the fact? Claimed it was signed due to "financial distress". Give me a break. I'm sure this will be unpopular, but imagine the liability some employees are? Some person that shook you down comes back ten years later and writes a book about how everyone there is awful. Here's an excerpt from another article: > Careless People is full of revelations about the gross institutional misconduct of Facebook, including its knowing encouragement of a genocide in Myanmar. But it's also full of stories about the severe personal failings of Facebook's executive team, especially Sheryl Sandberg, Joel Kaplan and Mark Zuckerberg. > These three come off as the most colossal of assholes, cruel, petty and predatory. Sandberg comes across as a sexual abuser who dreams of trafficking in poor people's organs. Kaplan is an oaf whose plan to provide paid internet access to refugee camps falls apart once he learns that refugees in camps don't have any money (he also takes points off of Wynn-Williams' workplace evaluation for being "unresponsive" over a period when she was in a near-death coma). Worst of all, though, is Zuckerberg, whose sins range from cheating at Settlers of Catan to endangering the Colombian peace process after a 50-year civil war because he refused to get out of bed before noon. Zuck is also revealed to have given the Chinese state access to all of Facebook and the power to censor content they disliked, as part of a failed bid to get permission to offer a Facebook service in China. Be careful who you hire.

ipython

I wish sites would link to the docket to provide a primary source. Here’s the complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.47...

arkhiver

archived: https://nonogra.ph/former-executive-sues-meta-over-attempts-...

kev009

Just keep hitting it with RICO lawsuits. The money they piss away on the vanity projects should probably have always been going to risk management.

asveikau

Seems like exactly what they'd do if the claims weren't true, am I right?

tlogan

So she is trying to make money by selling a book about how Facebook is bad, meaning how the company only cares about profit and nothing else. I can already tell it has to be one of the most boring books ever written, because there is nothing new there. It is basically like writing a book that says: the sky is blue and water is wet.

_HMCB_

Internet, enable Streisand-effect mode.

LogicFailsMe

I could get a significant pay boost jumping to META, why I personally know 2 people with those fancy 8-figure comp packages. However, life is too short for the shenanigans that would ensue if I did.

neves

I'm interested that people still work for Facebook

tasuki

She was happy to receive (a lot of) (dirty) Facebook money as an executive. Now she's turned against Facebook and does everything possible to get publicity. Yes maybe she's right. But also she's playing as dirty as Facebook.