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Careless People

The #1 Sunday Times bestselling memoir that rocked the world

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Careless People

Written by: Sarah Wynn-Williams
Narrated by: Sarah Wynn-Williams, Naomi Alderman
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 The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.


‘How else to put this? Bloody hell’ – The Guardian
‘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

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.

Powerfully narrated by the author. With a new foreword for paperback from Naomi Alderman.

‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him’ – Marina Hyde
‘Urgently necessary reading’ – Elizabeth Day, author of The Party and Friendaholic

Shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2025
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

 Corruption & Misconduct Internet & Social Media Politicians Politics & Activism Politics & Government Security & Encryption

Critic Reviews

Darkly funny and genuinely shocking: an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world. What Wynn-Williams reveals will undoubtedly trigger her former bosses’ ire. Not only does she have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods
Devastating . . . Wynn-Williams is a sharp and funny writer . . . a highly enjoyable read — a Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations
Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome
Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him (Marina Hyde, The Guardian)
A shocking, darkly funny and highly critical exposé
A morality tale for our times . . . How else to put this? – bloody hell
Staggering . . . spectacular
Urgently necessary reading (Elizabeth Day, author of The Party and Friendaholic)
Well-written, funny, horrifying, and quite compelling. I was on the edge of my seat, turning pages as fast as I could and ended up reading the book in less than a day. I cackled. I gasped. I laughed. I cringed. I cackled some more. I cringed some more (Roxanne Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist)
Wynn-Williams writes with the kind of precise fury that can only come from someone who's been inside the beast (Jake Adelstein, journalist and author of Tokyo Vice)
Unbelievable and necessary . . . wonderfully written, propulsive, novelistic and laugh-out-loud at times (Maria Semple, bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette)
Jaw-dropping . . . It's a story that will fire you up, and make you want to fight back (Glamour)
A well-written bombshell (Jonathan Haidt, bestselling author of The Anxious Generation)
Compulsively readable . . . An addictive exposé, filled with explosive allegations . . . Writing this book is perhaps the best thing she did to help to achieve the kind of regulation we urgently need to preserve democracy
I love Careless People (Reverend Richard Coles, author of Murder Before Evensong)
A fascinating exposé of life and culture at Facebook. I couldn’t put it down. It’s high-octane drama in the real world, and it’s equal parts entertaining and horrifying (V.E. Schwab)
Reads like a thriller, a farce, a caper . . . There are extraordinary revelations on every page (Pandora Sykes, journalist and broadcaster)
All stars
Most relevant
A must read/listen in our day and time. The way these new age companies functions and what it takes from us, the common people should be public knowledge

The narration style

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It gives great insight into facebook work culture. Eye opening insight! The author narration is very engaging. Loved it.

Great book and narration

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good contemporary read of the corporate and the modern digital world. interesting and insightful.

contemporary read

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Taking everything at face value, and without giving anything away, this book is a bombshell. It is the epitome of personal and corporate greed—and, aptly, the carelessness of people in power. It showcases a reckless attitude toward the horrors faced by ordinary people, manipulated by the powerful who couldn’t care less about anything or anyone beyond profits or influence It leaves you feeling helpless, as we are so entwined with and dependent on platforms created by truly abhorrent individuals.

A must read

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When I first started listening to the book, two things crossed my mind. First what a brave and tenacious person Sarah is and secondly why was she so desperate to get into Facebook of all places. Is she a deep asset for the 5 eyes? When there was no position for her in the company a position was created. Her background in Diplomacy did come in very handy. As the story progresses it dawned on me that the company FB is no good. Only thing guiding the company is profit and power derived from capacity to influence common simple folks. What it gives back to USA is taxes on the salaries of people who work in US and Zero taxes on company profit as they use 'double Irish' to move money from one shell company to another abroad. MZ as owner of company it appears is so delusional as to think of himself as not less than a President of any country.

As listers will notice FB is no good with privacy. One should post only those thing on FB which you want the world to know about. Nothing personal any one should be posting. It is dangerous to the security of any country as there are hardly any safeguards and your data is not your data once you post it on FB. FB derives all its power from the number of users on it.

Narration of the Book was good, the accents were shifting. Story line was well edited and tight. But there was hardly any closer to the story. US being such a litigious society why no lawyer came forward to take up her case for % share from the final compensation. Or there was an out of court settlement about which the book is silent.

All about Power, Greed and more Greed

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