Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read This Book

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg don’t want you to read the book Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. It’s a memoir from Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams that details the company’s attempts to enter China and how desperately weird its C-suite is. An arbitrator gave Meta a favorable ruling this morning, following an emergency meeting. The ruling says that Wynn-Williams can no longer promote the book and that she must, as best she can, halt its publication.

Careless People, which you can buy from Bookshop right nowis a first-person account of what Wynn-Williams saw while working at Meta at the highest level. She was a part of the company from 2011 to 2017 and worked alongside executives like Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Joel Kaplan.

Wynn-Williams and her publisher kept the memoir secret until just a few days before its publication earlier this week, fearing that Meta would try to shut down its publication. Reading through it, it’s easy to see why Meta wouldn’t want this book out there. Careless People, which you can buy from Amazon right here with the click of a buttonis full of salacious details about the company’s execs.

According to Wynn-Williams, Zuckerberg praised Andrew Jackson as America’s greatest president because “got stuff done.” She also says the Meta founder needed a group of a million people gathered for him in China so he could be “gently mobbed.” She claims Sandberg bought her matching lingerie and got upset when Wynn-Williams wouldn’t share a bed with her on a 12-hour flight.

In Careless People, which Powell’s is selling for $32.99 right hereWynn-Williams alleges that Kaplan sexually harassed her. Wynn-Williams was born and raised in New Zealand and became a U.S. citizen while working at Facebook. She says Kaplan asked her if the citizenship test quizzed her on the term “dirty sanchez.” She also claims that Kaplan emailed her repeatedly when she was deathly ill following the birth of her second child and demanded to know “where are you bleeding from?”

Wynn-Williams reported Kaplan to Meta for sexual harassment and left the company following the investigation. Meta told NBC News that the investigation lasted 42 days and involved interviews with 17 witnesses. Meta said its investigation cleared Kaplan of wrongdoing. It told NBC it had “determined (Wynn-Williams) made misleading and unfounded allegations of harassment” and that she was fired for “poor performance and toxic behavior.”

“This is a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives,” Meta said in a press statement.

In typical Silicon Valley fashion, Wynn-Williams signed a non-disparagement and arbitration agreement when she left the company in 2017. That agreement is the heart of the arbitration order that Meta has leveled against her. It filed an emergency request on March 7 and received its answer from the arbitrator on March 13. According to the ruling, Wynn-Williams and her publisher ignored the company’s calls to come to arbitration.

“On the morning of March 12, 2025, respondent Wynn-Williams apparently appeared on a popular podcast where she discussed her book and Claimant’s attempts to ‘shut this book down,” the ruling said.

The ruling seeks to stop Wynn-Williams “from further promoting Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism on a book tour or otherwise, including with respect to electronic and audio versions of the book” it also tells her that she must, to the best of her abilities, stop publishing and selling the book.

After the ruling came down, Meta hosted it on its website. Its spokesperson, Andy Stone, shared it on Threads. “This ruling affirms that Sarah Wynn Williams’ false and defamatory book should never have been published,” he said. “This urgent legal action was made necessary by Williams, who more than eight years after being terminated by the company, deliberately concealed the existence of her book project and avoided the industry’s standard fact-checking process in order to rush it to shelves after waiting for eight years.”

It’s important to note that an arbitration tribunal is not a court of law, and though this ruling looks like a court document, it’s not one. It was issued by an “emergency arbitrator,” not a judge. You won’t find this ruling on Pacer or government websites.

Barnes & Noble is selling Careless People for $5 off the cover price right now.