#StreisandEffect ;-) #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #CarelessPeople #SarahWynnWilliams #Meta #Facebook

Streisand says "stop telling everyone where I live" and expects that to help.

#streisandeffect

https://electrek.co/2025/03/21/elon-tells-tesla-employees-not-to-sell-tsla-stocks-board-execs-are-dumping/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Lol.

#StreisandEffect

"Meta exposé tops chart despite company’s attempt to ban its promotion"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/20/meta-expose-tops-bestseller-chart-despite-companys-attempt-to-ban-its-promotion?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The Streisand Effect is in full force now with "Careless People," Sarah Wynn Williams' memoir about her time as director of global public policy at Facebook — the book is now at No. 3 on Amazon's bestsellers list. Former colleague Katie Harbath, who was Facebook's public policy director for global elections, recalls things differently to Wynn Williams, and says the book is "riddled with factual inaccuracies and exaggerations." Here's her post, "Careless People is Careless," on her Anchor Change Substack. "For those who didn’t work at the company or with Sarah, this book is a page-turner," she says. "Meta choosing to seek arbitration to block Sarah’s ability to promote it helps feed the intrigue for what is in it. (It is also ironic for Meta to be complaining about her not fact-checking the book when they just got rid of their fact-checking program.)"

https://flip.it/.e2SC7

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #CarelessPeople #SarahWynnWilliams #StreisandEffect #Meta #Facebook

LOL F*ck #Meta #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #Zuckerberg #SocialMedia #TechBros #SarahWynnWilliams #CarelessPeople #LIteratiBookstore #StreisandEffect

I wasn't REALLY interested in reading about Meta behaving badly, it being a known quantity. But if Meta wants it silenced this bad, I suppose I'll have to take a look.
#Meta #StreisandEffect
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zyq0250wo

#StreisandEffect Alert: Former Meta employee barred from promoting explosive memoir after META obtains a temporary injunction barring the author from promoting the memoir or bad-mouthing the tech giant. Furthermore, she was ordered to "talk-nice" while the case proceeds.

Promotion must be done by anti-Meta advocates

"Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism" is an explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them. #META #FaceBook #USPol

https://www.rawstory.com/meta-2671332767/

#StreisandEffect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.

The term was coined by Mike Masnick after Barbra Streisand attempted in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drawing far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph. The effect exemplifies psychological reactance, in which the attempt to hide information instead makes it more interesting to seek out and propagate

Huh, I'd not heard of this book until #meta tried to stop it being promoted. #streisandeffect in action. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5zyq0250wo

Facebook (Meta) wants to stop the author of a memoir about working there from promoting the book.

The memoir is "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism" by Sarah Wynn-Williams [1]

You should definitely tell your friends about it, ask your library to get a copy, or buy it.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams/1147093187

These days, there’s a lot of talk about the Streisand Effect in the Fediverse. So here's a little tribute to the original Barbra Streisand.

https://song.link/s/1vZTgn4JXWMahR8r99ug5H