Cory DoctorowApr 23, 2025

I never would have read *Careless People*, Sarah Wynn-Williams's tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta's lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it:

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5318854/former-meta-executive-barred-from-discussing-criticism-of-the-company

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Show threadCBinNYCApr 23, 2025
@pluralistic I bought it for the same reason. Talk about the Streisand effect.
Show threadDr Russell Glasson

@pluralistic @craigburdett
Lots of my world feels like the outcome of this:

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
—F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, THE GREAT GATSBY”

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Careless People
Sarah Wynn-Williams
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Apr 23, 2025 at 9:39pmMetatext