Inside the ugly world of Facebook
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Culture Books Book of the Day 10 April 2025 In Careless People, former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals the callousness at the heart of the company. By Megan Gibson On the morning of 15 December 2010, Time magazine revealed its person of the year: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. In a glowing profile, the magazine trumpeted the tech founder’s mission of connecting the world and the breakneck speed of Facebook’s growth, while largely glossing over the then-mounting concerns the wider public had about social media and privacy. That social networks could be used as tools for nefarious ends is only lightly nodded at in the piece: “Sometimes Zuckerberg can sound like a wheedling spokesman for the secret police of some future totalitarian state. Why wouldn’t you want to share? Why wouldn’t you want to be open – unless you’ve got something to hide?”I was a newly hired junior reporter at Time then, and the morning the piece was published I was tasked with a miserable chore: monito...