Last Wednesday, Meta Careless Man: A cautionary story, greed and the idealism of loss. Today, the book ranks third on Amazon’s bestseller list. Who can see this?
META prevents whistleblowers from promoting books, ensuring more people will read it
Release on March 11 Careless person It tells the story of Wynn-Williams working at Meta (formerly Facebook) from 2011 to 2017. The New York Times called the memoir “the internal account of a company she said, which she said was run by leaders of status quo and self-absorbing…even if Facebook became a medium for the false propaganda movement and incorporated into an authoritative system.”
Of course, Meta strongly disagrees with Wynn-Williams’ assessment, tags Careless person “Combining outdated and previously reported claims about the company and false allegations against our executives.”
Obviously hope to reduce Careless personMeta spread, accusing Wynn-Williams of violating her employee non-government agreement, causing her to arbitrate. As a result, the arbitrator temporarily bans Wynn – Williams promotion Careless person Or distribute it yourself.
However, this is a generally acknowledged fact that if you tell people not to look at one thing, then they will definitely look at it. From Orpheus to the Eurydice in Greek mythology to Lot’s wife watching Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible, to everyone on the internet watching Barbra Streisand’s house in 2003.
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It is no surprise that Meta’s temporary victory in arbitration only caused Wynn-Williams’ book.
As of Sunday’s writing, Careless person Two books behind Amazon’s bestseller only: Susan Collins’ upcoming Hunger Games Prequel The harvest sunriseand self-help books by Mel and Sawyer Robbins Let them theory. Wynn-Williams’ book is also the best-selling book in the Amazon political and social sciences category.
Multiple comments and comments Careless personThe GoodReads page also explicitly quotes the arbitration award, with many announcing to buy and read it because Meta prevented Wynn-Williams from promoting the book.
“Oh, don’t Mehta want us to read this book? Did they forcefully stop the promotion? Of course, they want to know what they might be trying to hide…” Goodreads user Chris Mango Reader wrote in the page’s favorite comment.
“Facebook is just trying to keep this author silent,” Mwanamali wrote. “So, I’m going to read it.”
Taking into account a fact Careless person It was published less than a week ago and it seems unlikely that many people will complete it. However, at the time of writing, it has already earned 333 ratings on Goodreads, with 4.56 out of 5.56 stars. Careless person As a book, they are currently reading on Goodreads, and about 12,800 books say they want to read it.
Statistically speaking, most people may not end up reading Careless person. Adding a book to the reading list is much less than actually reading it. Even so, considering that there are still 12,800 people now, it almost doesn’t matter Careless person and allegations that Meta tried to eliminate. In the tech giant’s estimates, this could be awful.
