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Ex-Facebook employee alleges sexual harassment and human rights failures in new memoir | The book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former New Zealand diplomat, addresses Facebook’s impact on democracy during a crucial period in the company's history.


The book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former New Zealand diplomat, addresses Facebook’s impact on democracy during a crucial period in the company's history.

Sarah Wynn-Williams says in the book and in an exclusive interview with NBC News that she faced retaliation from the company after she reported sexual harassment by her boss, Joel Kaplan, who at the time was a vice president for global public policy. The book chronicles what Wynn-Williams describes as Zuckerberg’s halting evolution from a software-focused engineer and political novice into an executive who micromanaged content moderation decisions about far-flung countries and considered his own run for president. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Joel Kaplan, then its vice president for global public policy, in Paris in 2018.Aurelien Morissard / IP3 / Getty Images fileWynn-Williams writes that she was also uncomfortable with how Sandberg crossed what Wynn-Williams considered professional boundaries.

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