Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook in 2011 when it was very much in its “move fast and break things” era. A former United Nations diplomat, she had aspirations of helping Facebook boost its standing on the global stage.

Over nearly seven years at the company, she had a front-row seat to some of Facebook’s most consequential (and controversial) moments. Last week, she published Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, a memoir about her time at the company and how she slowly became disillusioned about Facebook’s role in the world.

Since it was announced, Meta has thrown the full weight of its PR machine against the book. The company initiated arbitration proceedings, which resulted in a ruling that now prevents Wynn-Williams from promoting her own book. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said the arbitrator’s decision “affirms that Sarah Wynn Williams’ false and defamatory book should never have been published.” He said that “urgent legal action was made necessary by Williams, who more than eight years after being terminated by the company, deliberately concealed the existence of her book project and avoided the industry’s standard fact-checking process in order to rush it to shelves after waiting for eight years.”

Her publisher, Flatiron Books, said in a statement it was “appalled” by Meta’s actions, noting that “the arbitrator's order makes no reference to the claims” in the book, which “went through a thorough editing and vetting process.”

After reading the book, it’s easy to see why Meta PR has made such a fuss. Wynn-Williams worked closely with the company’s top executives, traveling around the world with Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg as they met with foreign leaders and shaped the policies that would define Facebook. She also delivers many firsthand accounts of what Zuckerberg, Sandberg and current Chief of Global Affairs Joel Kaplan did and said behind closed doors. Much of it isn’t pretty.

Here are some of her most shocking claims:

Zuckerberg requested to be “gently mobbed” during a visit to Asia

Wynn-Williams was often tasked with organizing the meetings various Facebook executives took with heads of state and other government officials. One of the more bizarre details is Zuckerberg’s request ahead of a three-week long trip to Asia. According to Wynn-Williams, Zuckerberg requested that she arrange either a “peace rally” or a “riot” during his visit. Facebook’s CEO never explains the request, but Wynn-Williams speculates he wanted "to test out how effective his product is in turning Facebook’s online tools into offline power.”

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At first, I think he's joking. Peace rallies are not my area of expertise, and-to be frank-I've never been asked to organize a riot before. Especially one for a tech CEO. I assume something has been lost in his communication-that it's some sort of mix-up. "Riot" and "peace rally" are such completely different things. Then Debbie emails to say that she ran into Mark and he told her that he wants a peace rally or a riot and we need to come up with some ideas that will enable him to be surrounded by people or be "gently mobbed."

Zuckerberg refused to take meetings before noon, even with heads of state

Zuckerberg apparently had a “strict” policy about not taking any meetings before noon. This policy applied not only to internal meetings with others at Facebook, but heads of state. Wynn-Williams recounts how Zuckerberg’s “refusal” to take morning meetings almost derailed a planned meeting with the president of Colombia. That same year, she said she was forced to reschedule Zuckerberg’s address at the UN to a later time slot because, according to Wynn-Williams, “the United Nations isn’t important enough for Mark to do an event before noon.”

Meta built Zuckerberg a special room to protect him from Zika

Facebook took “extreme measures” to protect Zuckerberg from Zika during a visit to Peru for the APEC conference. To protect the CEO, who was apparently hoping to soon conceive his second child, the company opted "to build a ‘controlled structure’ on the site of the APEC conference center where ventilation, exposure to others, and bug mitigation can be overseen by Facebook.” Wynn-Williams dubbed it “operation perfect sperm.”

Zuckerberg’s “desperate” attempts to talk to Xi Jinping

Wynn-Williams spends a lot of time delving into Facebook’s plans to bring the social network to China. She also details Zuckerberg’s attempts to get face time with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In 2015, Zuckerberg flew to Seattle for a “longer than normal” handshake with Xi (who was in the city for a tech summit Zuckerberg was not invited to). He later caused a “diplomatic crisis” when he posted a photo of that handshake, which only shows the back of Xi’s head.

The following year, Zuckerberg and his team hoped to surreptitiously get the CEO in front of Xi at APEC in Peru. Facebook arranged for Zuckerberg to give a speech directly before an appearance by Xi, which meant the two men would be in adjacent dressing rooms. The goal, according to Wynn-Williams, was to engineer a “spontaneous encounter” during which Zuckerberg could make his pitch to get Facebook into China.

But when Xi arrived, he was flanked by “dozens and dozens” of men in military uniforms who created a barrier such that, according to Wynn-Williams, Xi didn't even have to “risk making eye contact with Mark.” She says that Zuckerberg was “hurt” by the demonstration.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5697065&forum_id=2Elisa#48765151)

Some of the most telling anecdotes in Careless People involve Kaplan, who joined Facebook’s policy team in 2011 and was promoted to Chief Global Affairs Officer earlier this year. She writes that Kaplan, who was a deputy chief of staff in the George W. Bush White House, was “surprised to learn Taiwan is an island” and that “often when we start to talk about pressing issues in some country in Latin America or Asia, he stops and asks me to explain where the country is.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5697065&forum_id=2Elisa#48765156)

But when Xi arrived, he was flanked by “dozens and dozens” of men in military uniforms who created a barrier such that, according to Wynn-Williams, Xi didn't even have to “risk making eye contact with Mark.” She says that Zuckerberg was “hurt” by the demonstration."

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5697065&forum_id=2Elisa#48765159)

Musk may still care about being liked, but he's throwing his marbles in the ring there and trying to be a Great Man of History, change the world, etc.

Zuck, and more so Bezos, are just running their companies and yachting or whatever. Bezos will be dead in a couple of decades, what's his fucking problem? He should depose some leader and take over a country, or build a megapolis in a forest, or something cool.

Gates set a terrible precedent of mega-rich faggot with all the power within his reach and just faggoted around on pet projects and keeping a low profile. Feels like most of these rich tech guys are following that path. Pathetic.

Even if Musk loses it all, get assassinated or whatever, he's STRIVING to rule the world. I salute that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5697065&forum_id=2Elisa#48765598)

for musk tesla and twitter are just playthings he bought after he was already rich so he's not as emotionally invested in their long term prospects

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5697065&forum_id=2Elisa#48765873)

Haha yeah, we all Felon Musky didn't actually work hard or build anything, I heard he was born rich and is ackkshually a lazy lucky midwit!

(Jewish Libs actually expect you to seriously believe this btw and they will threaten to firebomb your car unless you nod along, btw make sure you 'Vote Blue No Matter Who' in '26!)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5697065&forum_id=2Elisa#48766076)

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extremely relatable, but you don't have to ask

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5697065&forum_id=2Elisa#48767588)

https://crowdsondemand.com/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5697065&forum_id=2Elisa#48767607)