Careless People

Wynn-Williams's memoir of running international policy at Facebook reads as a ledger of specific decisions rather than a general indictment: a codenamed project to court Chinese approval by offering to build a censorship system with a company-appointed 'chief editor' and a kill switch for unrest, and the company's rushed expansion into Myanmar without the moderation infrastructure to catch the incitement that helped fuel violence against the Rohingya. What distinguishes it from the genre of tech-insider tell-alls is the granularity — named meetings, named products, dated internal fights — and a persistent focus on how idealistic hires rationalized what they were building. Meta's attempt to legally suppress its publication only underscored how uncomfortably specific the account is.