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• Vox Adam Clark Estes on x

  The Facebook tell-all Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want you to read, briefly explained

• @zeyiyang Zeyi Yang on bluesky

  Meta trying to bury a book before they even read it is so funny www.wired.com/story/plaint...

• @wearyourshaydes Sarah Hayden on bluesky

  The Los Angeles public library is gonna collapse from all the holds placed on this book, lol [embedded post]

• @jenniferj Jennifer Jeffrey on bluesky

  Nothing makes me smash “BUY BOOK” faster than learning that Meta and Sheryl Sandberg don't want me to read it.  [embedded post]

• @megannicolett @megannicolett on bluesky

  meta's attempts to bury this book made me go buy it [embedded post]

• @badgerblue @badgerblue on bluesky

  Heading out to buy mine now

• @richardeaglespoon.com Joe Rosenthal on bluesky

  Meta's claiming they have a non-disparagement clause that prevents the author from making negative claims about Meta and its executives, not a non-disclosure agreement.

• @pranavdixit Pranav Dixit on threads

  Streisand effect.  The book is number 3 on Amazon's US bestseller list.  And here's the situation at my local public libraries.

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on threads

  I love reading memoirs, and part of that is you accept that there's no way ever detail is exactly right; there's no way someone remembered every exact conversation.  That's just part of the genre (rather than “journalism").  I read “Careless People” with the assumption some detai…

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on threads

  Meta has been saying that the book is full of OLD NEWS.  Which, is kind of true!  But like.... so what?

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on threads

  Meta memoir “Careless People” is no. 3 on Amazon's best sellers' list

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on threads

  “Meta doesn't want you to read this book” is the best promotion a book about Meta can have, imo https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...

• @max.zeff Max Zeff on threads

  Pivot back to free expression is going really well so far

• @mattrichardson Matt Richardson on threads

  Last night I started reading Careless People, a memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams.  She was a Facebook employee who influenced the way Facebook worked with governments and heads of state early on.  Her story is quite astonishing right from the jump.  (Acknowledging the irony of posti…

• @parkert Parker Thompson on threads

  Meta does things that merit criticism, but why do all of their former employees that attack them (Chamath, Haugen, etc) seem like total grifters?  —  Entering into a legal agreement, ignoring it, and then not showing up to the hearing to determine if you broke it...is quite carel…

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  It's 8:40am pst so Facebook CEO Zuckerberg just began his multi-day deposition for allegedly overpaying $5B+ settlement to protect himself. - key directors already deposed - afaik, he's never sat for depo this long, sensitive - new book says he doesn't like meetings before noon.

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Hat tip to the Facebook comms team for their careless strategy to suppress this new Tell-All book scorching their brands, company and executives. [image]

• @stevenlevy Steven Levy on x

  Meta probably realizes that all-out war on this book will only help its sales. But they are furious that an insider—who signed an NDA!—is going White Lotus on them, showing what it's like on the inside. https://www.wired.com/...

• r/TrueReddit r on reddit

  Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book

• r/entertainment r on reddit

  Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book

• r/hackernews r on reddit

  Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg