Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
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Re: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
#2A dupe of my comment from another post on this (relating to the US arbiter ruling that she may not promote the book https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351949)
People may be interested in the interview with Wynn-Williams (the whistleblower) on the News Agents podcast: https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrpKCA/ (it's a UK news/political podcast very popular in the UK). From what they said at the beginning I think this is her first big podcast interview about the book/her claims. I wonder if she chose a UK podcast because of the US arbiter ruling.
Re: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
#3A dupe of my comment from another post on this (relating to the US arbiter ruling that she may not promote the book https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351949 ) People may be interested in the interview with Wynn-Williams (the whistleblower) on the News Agents podcast: https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrpKCA/ (it's a UK news/political podcast very popular in the UK). From what they said at the begin…
She also did an interview with BI "hours before an arbitrator ruled in Meta's favor" https://www.businessinsider.com/former-meta-executive-sarah-...
Re: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
#4She said Wynn-Williams’ allegations about Kaplan are false, and in a Thursday statement, she called the book “defamatory” and alleged that Wynn-Williams had skipped “the industry’s standard fact-checking process.
(emph, mine)
This, coming from a Meta spokesperson, is rather rich.
Re: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
#5After all what Meta did? Who could have thought.
And yet people love to upload photos of their children on pedobook.
Re: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
#6She said Wynn-Williams’ allegations about Kaplan are false, and in a Thursday statement, she called the book “defamatory” and alleged that Wynn-Williams had skipped “the industry’s standard fact-checking process. (emph, mine) This, coming from a Meta spokesperson, is rather rich.
My goodness, the audacity.
Re: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
#7Good to have more people expose the greedy, dictatorial, detrimental shitshow that is single individuals having an outsized control over important technology. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Noone should be as big as Zuck, Musk, Altman, Bezos...
I had one moment of eyebrow-raising while reading the article. On the risk of blaming someone who was mind controlled into caring too much about ultimately unimportant, spiritually toxic shit:
> Wynn-Williams’ critiques aren’t limited to Zuckerberg. She describes the working culture under Sandberg as so intense that Wynn-Williams felt pressured to send her talking points while in labor, her feet in stirrups.
My thinking is... can you put this 100% on Sandberg? I mean, I get that the culture is bad, but there's two in this game. Maybe... turn off your phone for a day when you're giving birth?!
Re: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
#8My conception of world conquering ambition comes mostly from popular media so trying to imagine Zuckerberg trying to become the world's stenographer through a platform that is 90% boomer-bait AI slop is a bit disorienting.
Re: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
#9you don't become a global ceo without being an absolute killer and not having non-questionable morals. I can make up different stuff about how a ceo can be amoral, and those would still apply to zuck / {{ whoelse }}
book meant to be sold at airports for bored people. non-story.
Re: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
#10Not really surprised. It's good to have more people talking about how these people act out of the public eye. But all of this makes me a little less optimistic, and just reminds me that powerful people are rarely held accountable for all the messed up stuff they do.