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Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers
Doctorow, Cory. (2026). Pluralistic: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026). Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow. https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/ (Accessed on June 27, 2026 at 05:17)
You may have heard that Meta (Facebook's parent company) has legally silenced Sarah Wynn-Williams, forbidding her to utter another word about her book or promote it it any way ('Careless People', a whistleblowing memoir of her time there between 2011 and 2017). This has resulted in a slightly horrifying / bizarre / almost comical series of situations in which Sarah is a panellist at events but is not able to speak and her book cannot be on sale after her events. Meta has now told her that her sitting mutely on panels is also against their wishes so she's now suing them to try and get herself released from the contract.
I remember back in 2006/7 (soon after Facebook permitted 'the public' to have accounts) logging in to discover that I could see other people's accounts, as if I was logged in as them. I remember emailing Facebook (which was possible back then!) to let them know, and they wrote back that there had been a short term glitch which was now fixed. I remember writing back 'Good save ;)' with a sarcastic winking face - but presumably sent it from my work account as I can't find any mention of it on Gmail (which I got in 2005 I think).
While I didn't find a news report specifically about that event they did plenty of daft things in 2006 and 2007.
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| Facebook founder apologises for 'messing up' (8 September 2006) The Guardian |
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| Facebook dismisses privacy fears (12 September 2007) BBC News |
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