We Read the Book Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read. We Can See Why.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Meta has dismissed Careless People as “a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives.” The company’s stock has continued its steady decline, however. She also “looks bored immediately” after Wynn-Williams informs her of the historic turnout for the 2017 Women’s March, “changing the subject to her weekend plans, meeting up with friends, the possibility of going dancing sometime in the future, redecorating her ski house, something about her apartment in Los Angeles, and some story about her boyfriend Bobby and how he’s trying to buy a private jet or staff for a private jet or something.” The kicker: “She seemingly could not care less,” even though she’d just spoken at a “Davos panel about women’s leadership.” What she does care about, however: “What did Melania wear?” It’s moments like this when Careless People is most effective—the former Facebook executive, ensconced in the company jets, the global summits, the various offices, dressing down her larger-than-life fellow executives as fellow human beings with flaws and hypocrisies and areas of ignorance and all. As Wired’s Steven Levy aptly notes: “Though she may not admit it, she’s one of the careless people too … sometimes offering objections—but ultimately going with the flow.” By 2016, her distrust of Zuckerberg is so heightened that it leads her to overlook the underlying point of an important privacy case: Brazil’s arrest of Facebook Vice President Diego Dzodan after WhatsApp refused to turn over encrypted messages potentially involved in a drug-trafficking court prosecution. An ex-Facebooker who otherwise praised Careless People on LinkedIn noted a similar concern, writing, “There were lots of Sarahs fighting their own battles in their own departments throughout the company, though the book suggests that she was an island of one.” And even if Meta’s hackneyed campaign to suppress Careless People only got more people to buy, read, and read about it, it’s also intended to send a chilling message to anyone else who may dare take up this venture: It will hound you and take you to arbitration.