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@decembr14 The author was personally responsible for persuading the junta in Myanmar to allow Facebook into the country - providing a means of igniting actions that caused many many deaths and then fanning the flames.

@Wen
Source?
Its record in Myanmar is indefensible, but (according to the BBC article linked below) Facebook was in the country since 2010. Wynn-Williams did not join Facebook until 2011.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55929654

@decembr14 Here - According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s most lethal impact is in Myanmar. She was sent there to overturn the junta’s ban, which she succeeded in doing after a very Bridget Jones-style episode in which she wangled her way into a party where she met a junta member, got a meeting at the communications ministry, then hitched a ride with a Burmese who couldn’t speak English to get to it on time.

http://archive.today/2025.03.11-194917/https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/careless-people-story-where-used-work-sarah-wynn-williams-review-058czxcg0 (archive)

and https://uk.news.yahoo.com/meta-executives-called-careless-people-214159150.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG8tMSe1IhkwTYRUR72GOkYRb86sfFXhqOcIBLa76kGzAfpSfDX0iMFH_jPdxOlGoBUBNyP5kGMcxUio65F3cV21Pk9P4MlKTxEfj3ccMJU93WSuTVOfQdrRpaFd9w2XGt2oAnjBqf58hpO_ofTKRYg_EhPVMtOb7G1Mn_pDv7ub

@Wen
Interesting; that must have been the temporary block in 2014, which was imposed by “the authorities” under the elected government of 2011. Talk of the “junta” confused me; military rule only resumed in February 2021, shortly after which the generals did indeed try to block Facebook—3 or 4 years after Wynn-Williams had left. Maybe it will all be clearer in the book.

@decembr14 That seems to be the case. She does seem to regret it after the fact.