Careless People: The #1 Sunday Times bestselling memoir that Meta doesn't want you to read

Name: Careless People: The #1 Sunday Times bestselling memoir that Meta doesn't want you to read
Rating: 4.038461685180664 (182 reviews)

Sarah Wynn-Williams

Mar 2025 · Pan Macmillan

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The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.

‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him’ – Marina Hyde
‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Times
‘A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations’ – The Times
'You have to read it' – Caitlin Moran

Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook believing the company could change things for the better. Instead, what she encountered over seven years was so shocking that Meta obtained a legal order to silence her.

Now you can read her award-winning story. Candid and entertaining, Wynn-Williams’ account pulls back the curtain on Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the global elite. She exposes the true cost of Silicon Valley’s ambition, from outrageous schemes cooked up on private jets to the alarming consequences of Facebook’s aggressive pursuit of global dominance.

Careless People is an ordinary woman's gripping and darkly funny memoir that will forever change how you view the technology that runs our lives – and the unchecked power of those who control it.

With a new foreword for paperback from Naomi Alderman.

‘Urgently necessary reading’ – Elizabeth Day, author of The Party and Friendaholic
‘How else to put this? Bloody hell’ – The Guardian

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Book of the Year 2026
Winner for the British Book Awards, Freedom to Publish Award 2026
Shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2026
Shortlisted for the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the Unwin Award 2026
Winner of the Blueprint Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025
Winner of the Speakies Award for the Best Non-Fiction Memoir Audiobook

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more. ‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him’ – Marina Hyde ‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Time...

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182 reviews

YVES DURAND

May 3, 2025

so concerning to understand what sort of monster Facebook became year after year, starting from very good intentions. Very worried for our grandkids, their main innocent targets!

Miss Ingrid Lise Larssen

May 12, 2025

This book delivers on all levels of interest and will quickly captivate the reader. Nothing less than 5***** but I would have given it more had that been possible. A uniquely intriguing introduction into someone who was to become a key player at Face Book. This free sample began quickly into the background of its brave author and surviving a near death experience from a shark attack in shallow waters in her home town of Christchurch New Zealand. She had far reaching vision and grasped the complexities which Mark Zuckerberg and Face Book would shortly experience, with regards to foreign governments, Heads of States and privacy issues. She managed the impossible and after numerous pitch attempts to Face Book, finally got hired after the earthquake disaster in NZ. Be amazed and spell bound as she shoots from the hip at a fast pace.

Erick

August 12, 2026

Very interesting how Sarah went beyond into share the tropth about this company that many of us dont trust. thank you for fighting and sharing

About the author

Sarah Wynn-Williams is a former New Zealand diplomat and international lawyer. She joined Facebook after pitching a job and worked there for many years, ultimately becoming director of global public policy. After leaving the company, she has continued to work on tech policy, including artificial intelligence. Careless People is her first book.

Sarah Wynn-Williams is a former New Zealand diplomat and international lawyer. She joined Facebook after pitching a job and worked there for many years, ultimately becoming director of global public policy. After leaving the company, she has continued to work on tech policy, including artificial ...

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