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  "description": "Has Meta not heard of the Streisand effect ? Or is it just Zuck that hasn't heard of it? They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. It's a timeless quote and borrowing a title from it is a smart, fitting choice given the subject. It's not Tom and Daisy, it's Zuck, Sheryl and Joel and it's quite apt. The fact that the company made an attempt to quash this only serves to validate the contents. That the author stayed so long at a company so clearly malign speaks to a naive line of thinking that she can try and do more good from inside the company. I understand that thinking, but she hit all the institutional walls you'd expect to be put up by, well, careless people who were deeply invested in the status quo. The book unfolds much as you'd expect if you've paid even the slightest amount of intention to Meta's malign influence on public discourse and the body politic. They greedily expanded into Myanmar, consequences be damned. The willingness to bend to any ask from the CCP to get access to the Chinese market and on and on. I'd say it's one moral compromise after the other, but I'm not sure anyone here had any morals to compromise. What we get is one depressing anecdote after another. The personal interactions are revealing and in line with everything you'd expect given the company's reputation and behavior in public. Highly recommended. I hope it was everything the company hoped it wasn't. : Erin Kissane has a must-read deep dive into this that you can start reading here .",
  "path": "/reading/books/9781250391247/careless-people",
  "publishedAt": "2025-09-14T00:00:00Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:sttgf52vkk46f6yuknvqxvgh/site.standard.publication/self",
  "tags": [
    "tech",
    "politics",
    "social media"
  ],
  "title": "Careless People"
}