Sarah Wynn-Williams Audiobooks

Published over Facebook's objections, Careless People is testimony rather than gossip

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Who is Sarah Wynn-Williams?

Sarah Wynn-Williams is a New Zealand lawyer, public policy advisor and author, born at the end of the 1970s, whose insider credentials are the entire point: she served as a Director of Public Policy at Facebook. In 2025 she published Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, and did so over Facebook’s objections – a detail that tells you a good deal about the book before you have heard a single word of it.

Books that appear against the wishes of the institutions they describe belong to a particular category: not gossip, but testimony. Wynn-Williams’s legal and policy background placed her unusually close to the machinery she writes about, and that proximity is what the book trades on.

Sarah Wynn-Williams in audiobooks

Careless People is the Wynn-Williams title in our catalogue, and it belongs to the most compulsive strain of non-fiction audio: the insider account. The subtitle – power, greed and lost idealism – maps the arc in advance, and the fact that the book emerged over its subject’s objections gives the listening an unmistakable charge.

For UK listeners, whose daily lives run through these platforms as much as anyone’s, this is that rare commodity: an account of Big Tech from inside the room rather than outside the gates. Approach it as testimony, listen critically, and draw your own conclusions – which is, we suspect, exactly what the author would want.