Careless People

 Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams, 382 pages.

Sarah Wynn-Williams was the Director of Public Policy at Facebook for many years, and this memoir gives a chilling internal look at the unbelievable irresponsibility of Facebook as an organization and especially of the people at the top. Although the generalities of Facebook's many crimes are pretty much public knowledge, the specific incidents Wynn-Williams describes still manage to be shocking, as she describes how carelessly the people running Facebook move through the world, completely unbothered by the harm they cause. 

This book manages to be personal while still feeling very focused on Facebook as an organization, which is a difficult line to walk with memoirs that are also informative about a topic. This makes this book very readable. The events are often dark, but it almost feels like watching a train wreck, and I couldn't look away. This especially feels like an interesting companion piece to Maria Ressa's How to Stand Up to a Dictator, which is another memoir about how Facebook undermines democracy, but from a very different perspective.