Meta Trashes Memoir by Former Exec

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A former Facebook executive is getting much attention for a new book about the company's current and former leaders, such as Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. The book has some surprising information that Meta calls "false and defamatory."

In Careless People, published in March 2025, Sarah Wynn-Williams claims Sandberg, the company's former chief operating officer, who built her brand in part on female empowerment with her book Lean In, had an intimate relationship with her female 26-year-old assistant that involved sleeping on each other during a business trip and wearing expensive lingerie that Sandberg allegedly asked her to purchase.

Wynn-Williams, who served as the director of global public policy at Facebook (now Meta) for seven years, recounts that they alternated between sleeping on each other's laps and occasionally touching each other's hair. "I endeavored to minimize my presence and visibility, feeling uneasy about the surroundings."

 Wynn-Williams also says in her book that Sandberg requested her assistant buy lingerie for them both for a total of $13,000. Sandberg: $10,000 and Sadie $3,000.

According to the book, the younger employee allegedly informed Wynn-Williams that she was "very conscious of the benefits of being Sheryl's 'little doll,' as she calls it, and having Sheryl tell her she loves her."

Wynn-Williams further explains, "She is the individual who elucidated the advantages of 'being on the pedestal.'"

Sandberg's spokesman declined to comment on the book.

 For Wynn-Williams, publishing the book presented an opportunity to reveal how Facebook executives, including Sandberg and CEO/founder Zuckerberg, contributed to her dissatisfaction with the highly popular social media network.

For example, in Careless People, Wynn-Williams shows the alarming lengths Zuckerberg went to get Facebook into the Chinese market, as well as the broad impact of hate speech on the network.

The Meta representative says they are going to court immediately because the claims in Wynn-Williams' book are "false and defamatory." The representative declined to provide additional information.

 According to Wynn-Williams, working at Facebook came at a high personal cost, especially while she was pregnant.

She recalls developing talking points for Sandberg while in the hospital, preparing to give birth, and flying worldwide while pregnant.

"Looking back, I can't quite believe it. "I feel ashamed," she writes. "I can't blame everything on Facebook," she writes. I have always been a driven person. I dislike letting people down. Nevertheless, I had no choice at Facebook.

 Wynn-Williams claims that on one of her visits overseas, she spotted Sandberg sleeping next to her aide and was later requested by the COO to join Sandberg in bed.

According to Careless People, Sandberg, in pajamas, requested that Wynn-Williams "come to bed" twice on a private jet with only one bed during a long voyage back to the United States. Wynn-Williams refused.

However, a source who worked with them at Meta and was there during their overseas journey believes Wynn-Williams is misinterpreting what occurred.

According to this source, Sandberg was most likely trying to persuade Wynn-Williams to rest in the plane's limited sleeping rooms, although they cannot recall the specifics given how long ago it was.

However, for Wynn-Williams, these conversations differed greatly from the ideas in Sandberg's 2013 best-selling book. Lean In describes how women can achieve influence on the job and at home and speak out against sexual harassment and other uncomfortable working behaviors.

According to her book, Wynn-Williams struggled to balance new motherhood and job expectations while on maternity leave, particularly during her encounters with Joel Kaplan.

Wynn-Williams' manager at the time was Kaplan, the vice president of US policy who had dated Sandberg.

In her biography, Wynn-Williams describes how Kaplan made her uncomfortable after the birth of her second child: According to the book, he insisted on a video conference throughout her maternity leave. Additionally, when she encountered complications after delivery that required surgery, he persisted in his inquiry: "However, from where are you bleeding?"

According to The New York Times, Facebook's review absolved Kaplan of inappropriate behavior.

 "Most days, working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli," Wynn-Williams writes in her book Careless People, "and way more like watching a number of our teenagers who've been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them."

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