Book Review: Careless People, Part 3 - Davos Insights, Campaign Collateral, and Learning the "Double Irish"
High & Low
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4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The recap of Chapters 19-26 covers Facebook's 2015 journey to Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) where author Sarah Wynn-Williams describes the various ways in which wealthy participants flexed their importance while lamenting the state of humanity. As she continues to get Mark opportunities to meet with world leaders and speak at United Nations events, she learns about a new desire for Facebook to ingratiate themselves into the campaign efforts of politicians around the globe. She describes Facebook's tax deferment practice, referred to as the "double Irish", and explains a major effort to recruit new users disguised as altruism, internet.org, and the valid concerns that led to it being rebranded as Free Basics. Throughout, she continues to share stories that enlighten us further about the kinds of people and motivations that built Meta, and her realization that any hope for them to make the world a better place was futile. BONUS: explaining net neutrality and where it stands in America
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the high and low podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | This is your host, Bravo, Bravo, |
| 0:08.8 | and we are about to get into careless people. |
| 0:12.1 | The book that was written by a lady named Sarah Wynne Williams, |
| 0:15.1 | who used to work for Facebook. |
| 0:16.5 | You know, you know what I'm talking about. |
| 0:17.9 | You've been on this journey with me. |
| 0:18.8 | This is part three. |
| 0:19.7 | All you need to know is this is the book that Meta Markberg facebook did not want made which is why everyone needs to read it and that is also why unlike any other book review I do where I like just do I read the book and I give you like one hour where I'm like this is what the book was about I'm doing what it takes here. We are army crawling through this book together. |
| 0:38.8 | I will do as many parts as I need to do. I think it's going to be four, though. |
| 0:41.7 | Because with this book, it is so chalkful of tea, tea that affects us that I don't want to |
| 0:46.6 | leave any of it out. So here we go, part three. In part two where we left off, she was telling |
| 0:52.1 | us about their dealings with China. The Chinese Communist Party, |
| 0:56.1 | she was showing excerpts of emails. They were talking about updated terms of service that would |
| 1:02.2 | include having existing users in Hong Kong be forced to accept that the Chinese government |
| 1:08.4 | would, quote, have access to their data. |
| 1:12.3 | So here we are, chapter 19. |
| 1:33.5 | This chapter is called Pac-Man. I can't wait to find out why. She's always got a good title for each one. All right, well, this doesn't bode well. First couple of sentences, and I'm already pissed off. She's talking about how after the Asia trip, Marnie, remember her boss, Marnie, go along with anything, Marnie. Marnie left the policy team to become C-O-O of Instagram, who replaced her. |
| 1:36.7 | Oh, just the person I can't stand the most so far in this book, Joel Kaplan. |
| 1:42.9 | The guy who was like, no, we need to make our first worldwide Facebook endeavor about the troops. |
| 1:46.0 | Do you hate the troops? Why do you not want to do that? |
| 1:52.5 | This is also the guy who's Cheryl Sandberg's ex-boyfriend, one of so many who are working at this place apparently. And then also he's such good friends with Brett Kavanaugh that he wanted to be |
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