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Ex-Facebook employee alleges sexual harassment and human rights failures in new memoir

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Sarah Wynn-Williams says she faced retaliation after she reported sexual harassment by her boss.

Facebook says she was fired for “poor performance and toxic behavior’s” The memoir, “Careless People,” is set to be published Tuesday .

Facebook, which owns Facebook , says the book includes “false accusations about our executives”.

A second Meta employee who worked with Wynn-Williams , Tessa Lyons , said the book was “dishonest and distorted” The book chronicles Zuckerberg ’s halting evolution from a software-focused engineer and political novice to an executive who micromanaged content moderation decisions.

The book is being published two months after Zuckerberg promoted Kaplan to be Meta 's chief liaison to the Trump administration and other governments.

A person who was on the plane said in an interview Sunday that they recall everyone, including Sandberg and others, encouraging her to get some sleep.

New Zealand -born lawyer and diplomat worked for Facebook as it was making its debut on the world stage in 2011 .

She writes that persuading Zuckerberg to meet international leaders was a challenge.

Wynn-Williams says Facebook is defined by “lethal carelessness,” claiming executives failed to respond appropriately to knowledge that Facebook inflamed global tensions.

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