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Careless People

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

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Careless People

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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Having worked in digital advertising, I'm sadly not surprised or shocked by many of the revaluations in this book. It is a must read for anyone with a Facebook account so they can make an informed decision if they want to continue to be a commodity of Zuck and stay on the platform.

Confirming what many suspected.

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This is one of my top listens of all time - right up there with Trevor Noah’s memoir. The author is a remarkable woman, her testimony entirely persuasive. It’s incredibly funny, and jaw-droppingly revelatory. I’m not remotely surprised that Meta’s lawyers are in a tailspin, but there’s no putting the cat back in the bag. In a sense it merely confirms everything we sort of knew, but the author’s cool style - she really doesn’t come across as someone with an axe to grind - is devastating. I’m so glad she read it herself, she does it beautifully and an actor would have created an unnecessary layer. Please just download this. One of those rare books where - with 4 or 5 hours to go - I was already having pangs of regret that it would soon be over. Did I mention that I liked this book? Thank you!!

Just brilliant

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important reflection at a time ethics and policy matters greatly. Myanmar and china sections especially interesting.

fascinating insight into psychology and behaviour of Facebook leadership

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Well read and eye opening story. Power corrupts - not necessarily through action but inaction. Eye watering arrogance displayed by many ‘of power’.

Eye opening

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I always thought of Facebook as a digital McDonalds, you know it’s bad for you but you do it anyway. Once in a while. What can it hurt…. Now I see, Facebook is McDonalds but only if McDonalds were serving you human meat burgers.

It baffles me how these people sleep at night.

Please listen to this book!

Everyone needs to hear this.

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