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Facebook’s secrets, by the insider who Zuckerberg tried to silence
Careless People author and former Meta director Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals what it was like ‘babysitting’ her boss
Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, says the book includes “defamatory and untrue allegations” about its executives, that it is a mix of “out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company” and described Wynn-Williams as a disgruntled former employee “fired for poor performance and toxic behaviour” (recollections differ). Wynn-Williams — at 45, only five years Zuckerberg’s senior — says she often felt as though she were “babysitting” her boss, as she witnessed first-hand his transformation from awkward engineer with no political acumen to power broker courted by leaders around the world. The latter’s behaviour, as described in the book, is a marked contrast to her public persona, as the feminist whose 2013 manifesto Lean In sold more than four million copies and instructed other women on how to assert themselves at work and home.
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