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Careless People

The #1 Sunday Times bestselling memoir that Meta doesn't want you to read

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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 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

Winner of the British Book Award for Best Audiobook: Non-Fiction 2026
Winner of the Speakies Award for the Best Non-Fiction Memoir Audiobook 2025
Winner of the Blueprint Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2025
Shortlisted for the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the Unwin Award 2026

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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)
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Eye watering account of corporate psychopathy. Insight from someone with integrity who tried hard to change a company from the inside . Gripping read but ultimately a pretty sad story of hope dying

Excellent - shocking albeit not surprising

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Given the damage that Zuckerberg and Sandberg have inflicted on democracies, and on our children, none of what I read in this book was surprising - but it doesn’t make any of the stories any less outrageous or egregious. All of these big tech companies need to be regulated into the ground - for the sake of protecting the next generation of children, more than anything else. And I say that as someone who used to work in this world and evangelise about the social good that was social media. Not any more.

Enthralling, outrageous but not surprising

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it makes you question why politicians have not acted for so long. Why Facebook and other social media are not accountable for what is posted on their platforms while traditional media are? Why are users on social media platforms not verified why opionionist on traditionsl media have to be identified?

Facebook should be regulated

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Such a frightening tale we must stop Meta advancing as it has shown such bad grace

Superb first person history

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I work in digital marketing and believe every word of this. Well written and I felt empathy for Sarah’s position, I’m glad she has had the courage to stand up and tell this account of how unethical marketing practices can be so damaging to society. I hope good will come of this book. A must read for everyone who does not understand how social media works!

Gripping

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