'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence • Hacker News Board

Re: 'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence

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Post by jordanb » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

d-cc wrote: post #3

>Sarah Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under parent company Meta Platforms Inc., from 2011 until her firing in 2017. “Careless People” alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. I would have liked to learn about specific allegations of "cruel and otherwise disturbing" from the article, instead of leaving this complet…

One good example: Facebook was ignoring Brazilian law. An employee in brazil was arrested and charged with contempt. He spent a while in jail. Zuck started posting about the guy being a martyr for free expression while the lawyers trying to negotiate the release begged him to keep quiet.

Eventually the guy gets released and is invited to California to meet Zuck. Except by that time Zuck had forgotten all about it and ignored the guy.

Re: 'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence

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Post by jasonvorhe » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

bko wrote: post #8

She was a Director of Global Public Policy from 2011 to 2017. Probably cleaned up. On the arbitration, they mentioned there was 300k in business expense reimbursement. Signed an NDA, went through arbitration, got paid out pretty nicely and now wants to cash in 10 years after the fact? Claimed it was signed due to "financial distress". Give me a break. I'm sure this will be unpopular, but imagine the liability some em…

And after reading the Epstein files you don't think any of this happened and might be relevant considering their power?

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Post by randycupertino » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

d-cc wrote: post #3

>Sarah Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under parent company Meta Platforms Inc., from 2011 until her firing in 2017. “Careless People” alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. I would have liked to learn about specific allegations of "cruel and otherwise disturbing" from the article, instead of leaving this complet…

He throws huge temper tantrums and pouts so much when he loses at board games while traveling on the facebook private jet so all his staff conspires to let him win.

I read the book. Also Sheryl Sandberg comes off pretty badly, buying $13,000 worth of lingerie for her "cutie" personal assistants and asking them to wear skimpy pajamas and snuggle with her in the bed on the corporate jet.

There is a lot of corporate private jet related drama in the book.

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Post by ipython » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

d-cc wrote: post #3

>Sarah Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under parent company Meta Platforms Inc., from 2011 until her firing in 2017. “Careless People” alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. I would have liked to learn about specific allegations of "cruel and otherwise disturbing" from the article, instead of leaving this complet…

Exactly why I spent time to track down the complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.47...

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Post by digdugdirk » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

bko wrote: post #8

She was a Director of Global Public Policy from 2011 to 2017. Probably cleaned up. On the arbitration, they mentioned there was 300k in business expense reimbursement. Signed an NDA, went through arbitration, got paid out pretty nicely and now wants to cash in 10 years after the fact? Claimed it was signed due to "financial distress". Give me a break. I'm sure this will be unpopular, but imagine the liability some em…

Be careful who you hire???

What part of that last paragraph seems like acceptable human behaviour for a handful of the most powerful people in the world?

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Post by arkhiver » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

archived: https://nonogra.ph/former-executive-sues-meta-over-attempts-...

Re: 'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence

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Post by bob406 » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

d-cc wrote: post #3

>Sarah Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under parent company Meta Platforms Inc., from 2011 until her firing in 2017. “Careless People” alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. I would have liked to learn about specific allegations of "cruel and otherwise disturbing" from the article, instead of leaving this complet…

Fortune can't repeat those allegations for fear of being sued by Facebook or worse: loosing access to their ad and user tracking network.

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Post by stogot » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

Avicebron wrote: post #2

Maybe we can start calling the Streisand effect the Careless People effect as a modern update and way to keep Zuckerino annoyed

It works. This reminded me to queue up her book

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Post by sandworm101 » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

randycupertino wrote: post #13

d-cc wrote: post #3

>Sarah Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under parent company Meta Platforms Inc., from 2011 until her firing in 2017. “Careless People” alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. I would have liked to learn about specific allegations of "cruel and otherwise disturbing" from the article, instead of leaving this complet…

He throws huge temper tantrums and pouts so much when he loses at board games while traveling on the facebook private jet so all his staff conspires to let him win. I read the book. Also Sheryl Sandberg comes off pretty badly, buying $13,000 worth of lingerie for her "cutie" personal assistants and asking them to wear skimpy pajamas and snuggle with her in the bed on the corporate jet. There is a lot of corporate pri…

A bed in a corprate jet is a huge red flag. They have a place in private aircraft, but a company jet is a total non-starter.

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Post by senordevnyc » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

randycupertino wrote: post #13

d-cc wrote: post #3

>Sarah Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under parent company Meta Platforms Inc., from 2011 until her firing in 2017. “Careless People” alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. I would have liked to learn about specific allegations of "cruel and otherwise disturbing" from the article, instead of leaving this complet…

He throws huge temper tantrums and pouts so much when he loses at board games while traveling on the facebook private jet so all his staff conspires to let him win. I read the book. Also Sheryl Sandberg comes off pretty badly, buying $13,000 worth of lingerie for her "cutie" personal assistants and asking them to wear skimpy pajamas and snuggle with her in the bed on the corporate jet. There is a lot of corporate pri…

It's hilarious that anyone would give a shit about Zuck having a bad attitude about losing board games. Hopefully the book has something more damning than that.