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A Facebook Insider's Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top

“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.

Now she has written an insider account of a company that she says was run by status-hungry and self-absorbed leaders, who chafed at the burdens of responsibility and became ever more feckless, even as Facebook became a vector for disinformation campaigns and cozied up to authoritarian regimes. A former Marine who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia and who was part of the “ Brooks Brothers riot ” of 2000, which helped bring George W. Bush into office, Kaplan went on to serve as a deputy chief of staff in his administration. The Trauma Endures: In “Talk to Me,” Rich Benjamin — whose grandfather, Daniel Fignolé, was Haiti’s president for 19 days in 1957 — investigates his family’s harrowing past to better understand the troubles that continued to plague them.

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