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A former Meta executive characterizes company leadership as "careless" in new memoir

2025/3/24
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Sarah Wynn-Williams: 我将这本书命名为《粗心大意的人们》，是因为事实如此。Meta的领导层，包括扎克伯格和桑德伯格，在很多事情上都表现得粗心大意，小到公司员工都不愿让自己的孩子使用该服务，大到与中国共产党合作开发审查工具以满足他们的要求。我曾是Facebook的狂热粉丝，加入Meta后，我目睹了公司与中国共产党合作开发审查工具的内幕，以及公司领导层对全球公共政策的漠不关心。扎克伯格将世界视为一个棋盘游戏，只关注扩张和权力，而不关心其真实世界的影响。为了进入中国市场，Meta甚至考虑过将香港用户的资料作为谈判筹码。公司开发的审查工具对香港和台湾的病毒式内容进行监控，任何浏览量超过一万的内容都会自动发送给审查机构进行审核。这一切都体现了公司领导层的粗心大意和对社会责任的漠视。从2016年特朗普当选开始，这种粗心大意就越来越明显。Facebook在特朗普竞选期间嵌入了一个团队来帮助部署竞选广告，这在事后让扎克伯格感到不安，并让他开始反思公司对选举的影响，甚至考虑过竞选总统。我最终离开了Meta，因为我无法认同公司的价值观和行为。 Steve Inskeep: 科技CEO和政治领导人联合力量的现状，突显了理解Meta内部运作的必要性，Sarah Wynn-Williams的回忆录为我们提供了宝贵的视角，让我们了解科技公司对社会和政治的影响，以及公司领导层的决策过程。

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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta executive, is now barred from discussing her criticism of the company. But before Meta gained an injunction against their former employee, she spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep about her new memoir Careless People. The book charts Wynn-Williams' path from onetime Facebook megafan to Meta critic – and characterizes Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg as "careless" leaders comfortable cooperating with authoritarian regimes. In today's episode, Wynn-Williams and Inskeep discuss Meta's negotiations with China over censorship tools, Zuckerberg's relationship to President Trump, and alleged misconduct by Wynn-Williams' former boss, Joel Kaplan.Editor's Note: Meta is a financial supporter of NPR. To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedayLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)