Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says
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On a related note, I believe (based on no evidence) that Zuckerberg knows of a lot more nasty dealings and wants to crucify Wynn-Williams to scare off any potential whistleblowers.
If you have no evidence, then why do you believe it?
And she left long time ago. It is even more unlikely that the company magically became clean after her leaving.
A company and founder with such an extensive list of publicly known misdeeds (starting with Facesmash), chances are that there are many skeletons left to uncover. Setting a precedent is no unknown course of action.
It's not much to go by, but I am a commenter on HN, not a lawyer and Occam's razor doesn't disagree either.
Ok the details on Zuckerberg and ”Lean In” Sandberg _are_ bizarre. Which makes it a super fun read.
Sucks that she’s getting attacked. Hopefully the punitive damages she wins will be staggering.
On more than one occasion makes comparisons to the lofty idealized and non pragmatic goals of governmental institutions like the UN and seems bewildered that a business like Meta doesn’t (obviously) have the same aspirations/alignment.
She just reminds me of a very naive college student from what I’ve read thus far. Grinds my gears but I’m going to finish it.
You must be fun to work with
She expects presidents to tell Zuckenberg about harms of facebook. To kind of unload onto him, so that Zuckenberg stop doing bad things. Instead, presidents kiss his ass ... probably to get help in the next election.
It is this sort of thing that makes her come accross naive.
Also, when I read the description of the workplace, between dleep deprivation and isolation from non facebook people, everyone ends up in a bit of "cult group" thinking. That makes you even less likely to think accurately about what goes on around you.
IMHO she is just not from US. US culture _is_ totally foreign to anyone not from there.
Read the part where she describes her interactions with New Zealand prime minister and you will get it. That part to me feels natural (I'm from Finland). Everything else in the book reads like absurdist black comedy to me and not how I would expect people to behave normally.
Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698684
'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence
Witness Zuck under oath being interrogated by Josh Hawley in hearings:
His end thesis is that even though Meta knows of the Streisand effect, even though they full on expect to lose, badly, and look like bullies chuds and losers, with no real defense, they are doing it to keep everyone else who works or worked at Meta on line, to engage in gratuitous overkill as a message. Sounds about right!
He also had a very excellent piece on pro-Monopolists like Thiel, which just feels so close a breed of absolute deranged fucking madness. Excellent read. Realest of real problems. Deranged billionaires and their syndromes, https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/lucky-orifices/