Followers of Gordon’s Good Reads know that I am not a big fan of tell all memoirs, political or otherwise. However, if you are not a fan of Mark Zuckerberg, Sara Wynn -Williams Careless People will likely confirm your feelings about the man and his company.

Here is one of the most revealing takeaways from William’s front row seat as Director of Global Public Policy for Facebook.

Facebook basically handed the election to Donald Trump. It’s pretty ( expletive) convincing and pretty( expletive) concerning Facebook embedded staff in Trump’s campaign team in San Antiono for months along side Trump campaign programmers, ad copywriters,media buyersd and data scientists. A Trump operative named Brad Parscale ran the operation together with the embedded Facebook staff, and he basically invented a new way for a political campaign.

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Now I’m consumed by the worst of it. How facebook is helping some of the worst people in the world do terrible things. How its an astonishingly effective machine to turn people against each other and monitor people on a scale that was never possible before.

That’s what this company is and I was part of it. I failed when I tried to change it, and I carry that with me. (Williams)

It is no surprise Facebook tried to prevent publication. For what it is worth, this blogger cancelled his Facebook account several years ago.