Careless People: A Story of where I used to work: Power. Greed. Madness. by Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Author
- Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Category
- Technology
- Language
- English
- Year read
- 2025
- Rating
- 4 / 5
Careless People provides a deep look at the internal culture of Facebook and the consequences of its rapid growth. Sarah Wynn-Williams shares her experiences working at the tech giant and the ethical dilemmas she faced. It reveals the trade-offs between profit and responsibility.
“There are two perspectives that matter here, let’s consider hate speech/ violance content on platform, in case of Myanmar’s ethnic violance against Rohingyas, the filtering of content in favour of government/ military, allowing the proliferation of hate content, these are some things that happened in reality. Just for the sake of survival of platform in a country and 50-60 Mn users & ad revenue…”
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