Sarah Wynn-Williams, former high ranking manager at Meta/Facebook, wrote a book titled "Careless People" about her time there. She's giving a quite unfiltered inside look about how this social network is being managed and works. She was quite in touch with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and Joel Kaplan.
Meta tried to get the book suppressed, and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it, so that's why you probably have not heared about it yet. Zuckerberg is really pissed about the book.
This is how Cory Doctorow got to know about the book, he read it and gives a summary on his blog. And oh boy, work at Facebook is far more worse than anybody might have thought.
Wynn-Williams was in the beginning one of the few people telling Zuck to expand outside the US, but he didn't care. But when he dominated America, they suddenly felt the need to grow and she started flying with him on planes. BTW dominance is one of Zuck's bad traits, he hates to loose, which is why his employees let him win on purpose.
Quote Doctorow: "But those bosses – Zuck, Sandberg, Kaplan and others – are "careless." Zuck screws up opportunity after opportunity because he refuses to be briefed, forgets what little information he's been given, and blows key meetings because he refuses to get out of bed before noon. Sandberg's visits to Davos are undermined by her relentless need to promote herself, her "Lean In" brand, and her petty gamesmanship. Kaplan is the living embodiment of Green Day's "American Idiot" and can barely fathom that foreigners exist."
And of course we will happily censor in China
and enable China to spy on American citizens: "According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook actually built an extensive censorship and surveillance system for the Chinese state – spies, cops and military – to use against Chinese Facebook users, and FB users globally. They promise to set up caches of global FB content in China that the Chinese state can use to monitor all Facebook activity, everywhere, with the implication that they'll be able to spy on private communications, and censor content for non-Chinese users."
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