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Careless People author Sarah Wynn Williams accepts British Book Award for Freedom to Publish.
On March 12, 2025, Meta secured an emergency arbitration ruling halting the promotion of Sarah Wynn William's memoir, Careless People. Since then, she has been legally restricted from discussing her book or her time at Facebook. Despite the ongoing legal battle in California, the industry is taking a stand. On May 11, Wynn-Williams and Virginia Roberts Giuffre were jointly honored with the Freedom to Publish award at the British Book Awards. Though Sarah remains silenced regarding her own story, she used her platform to pay a powerful tribute to Giuffre.
BUY Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams: panmacmillan.com/authors/sarah-wynn-williams/careless-people/9781035065967@
MORE about the book:
The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.
‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him’ – Marina Hyde
‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Times
‘A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations’ – The Times
Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook believing the company could change things for the better. Instead, what she encountered over seven years was so shocking that Meta obtained a legal order to silence her.
Now you can read her award-winning story. Candid and entertaining, Wynn-Williams’ account pulls back the curtain on Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the global elite. She exposes the true cost of Silicon Valley’s ambition, from outrageous schemes cooked up on private jets to the alarming consequences of Facebook’s aggressive pursuit of global dominance.
Careless People is an ordinary woman's gripping and darkly funny memoir that will forever change how you view the technology that runs our lives – and the unchecked power of those who control it.
With a new foreword for paperback from Naomi Alderman.
‘Urgently necessary reading’ – Elizabeth Day, author of The Party and Friendaholic
‘How else to put this? Bloody hell’ – The Guardian
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2026
Shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2025
Shortlisted for the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the Unwin Award 2026
Winner of the Blueprint Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025
Winner of the Speakies Award for the Best Non-Fiction Memoir Audiobook
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Careless People author Sarah Wynn Williams accepts British Book Award for Freedom to Publish.
On March 12, 2025, Meta secured an emergency arbitration ruling halting the promotion of Sarah Wynn William's memoir, Careless People. Since then, she has been legally restricted from discussing her book or her time at Facebook. Despite the ongoing legal battle in California, the industry is taking a stand. On May 11, Wynn-Williams and Virginia Roberts Giuffre were jointly honored with the Freedom to Publish award at the British Book Awards. Though Sarah remains silenced regarding her own story, she used her platform to pay a powerful tribute to Giuffre.
BUY Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams: panmacmillan.com/authors/sarah-wynn-williams/careless-people/9781035065967@
MORE about the book:
The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.
‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him’ – Marina Hyde
‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Times
‘A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations’ – The Times
Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook believing the company could change things for the better. Instead, what she encountered over seven years was so shocking that Meta obtained a legal order to silence her.
Now you can read her award-winning story. Candid and entertaining, Wynn-Williams’ account pulls back the curtain on Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the global elite. She exposes the true cost of Silicon Valley’s ambition, from outrageous schemes cooked up on private jets to the alarming consequences of Facebook’s aggressive pursuit of global dominance.
Careless People is an ordinary woman's gripping and darkly funny memoir that will forever change how you view the technology that runs our lives – and the unchecked power of those who control it.
With a new foreword for paperback from Naomi Alderman.
‘Urgently necessary reading’ – Elizabeth Day, author of The Party and Friendaholic
‘How else to put this? Bloody hell’ – The Guardian
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2026
Shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2025
Shortlisted for the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the Unwin Award 2026
Winner of the Blueprint Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025
Winner of the Speakies Award for the Best Non-Fiction Memoir Audiobook
FIND us on:
TikTok: tiktok.com/@panmacmillan
Twitter: twitter.com/panmacmillan
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