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Just ordered the book. Fuck Meta.

I bought it as soon as I heard about them trying to bury it.

Avoiding amazon, I bought it from a Canadian company. In hindsight, I should have got off my lazy ass and bought it from a local bookstore.

Looking forward to reading this one.

Oh noes. Does Meta want something fact checked? Is it worried about misinformation and fake news? Was their privacy invaded?

Once I heard on 60 minutes Meta was attempting to shut down the sale of the book, I immediately bought one on release day at a local bookstore. Will read it once I have the time!

I bought a physical copy. My first physical book in over decade. I figure with the lengths Meta/Zuck are going to bury it, a physical one can’t be taken away the same way a digital one can.

Let's promote it for her :D

Zuckerberg refused to take meetings before noon, even with heads of state

This is the most normal thing about him

The fact that Meta is so desperately trying to destroy this book and its author must mean that it's factual to a tee. I hope we can Streisand Effect this into the NYT Best Sellers list.

Here it is on Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/nl/en/ebook/careless-people-8

Some of the most telling anecdotes in Careless People involve Kaplan, who joined Facebook’s policy team in 2011 and was promoted to Chief Global Affairs Officer earlier this year. She writes that Kaplan, who was a deputy chief of staff in the George W. Bush White House, was “surprised to learn Taiwan is an island” and that “often when we start to talk about pressing issues in some country in Latin America or Asia, he stops and asks me to explain where the country is.”

This almost seems difficult to believe, but considering the state of the world, I wouldn't be surprised if it is true.

By now, Meta’s failures in Myanmar, where hate speech and misinformation on Facebook helped incite a genocide, are well documented. Wynn-Williams, who early in her tenure flew to Myanmar to try to sell officials there on the company’s connectivity projects, describes her futile attempts to get more resources for content moderation in the country.

She blames Kaplan in particular. She says she “started this long process of trying to hire someone for Myanmar in 2015” and found a human rights expert who fit the bill in May 2016, but Kaplan blocked her from making the hire in February of 2017. He allegedly told her to “move on and get over it.” She later concludes that “when it came to Myanmar, those people just didn’t matter to him.”

In a just world, Kaplan and Zuckerberg would be required to do mandatory multi-decade community service work as live-in junior janitors at major Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. For example, in Bhasan Char island.

So she's not allowed to promote it while it's tied up in the courts. I guess I should order a few dozen copies before it gets banned!

What's weird is that these people are so awful, so horrible as leaders, and so wasteful and stupid with the massive fortune they've found and we all can change it with one simple press of a button - and we don't.