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Sarah Wynn-Williams: Careless People (Hardcover, Macmillan) 4 stars

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw …

A self-protecting ride through autocracy, kleptocracy, and capitalism

2 stars

First: the author, Sarah Wynn-Williams, is the former global public policy director of Facebook. The author is a coward and a person who tries to come off well through all of this; they don't come off well at all. From the start of this book:

I was one of the people advising the company’s top leaders, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, as they were inventing how the company would deal with governments around the world. By the end, I watched hopelessly as they sucked up to authoritarian regimes like China’s and casually misled the public. I was on a private jet with Mark the day he finally understood that Facebook probably did put Donald Trump in the White House, and came to his own dark conclusions from that. But most days, working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli and way more like watching …