Former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg spent $13,000 on her underwear on a trip to Europe for herself and a young female assistant, urging her to “go to bed” on her private flight on her way home, according to explosive new memoirs.
The bombshell claim is in a book published by Sarah Wynn-Williams (pictured above), a former Facebook employee who wrote about the six years she spent with the tech giants, titled “The Careless Man: A Warning Power, Greed, Greed and Lost Idealism.”
During a long drive in Europe, Sandberg and her 26-year-old assistant took turns sleeping on each other’s legs and stroking each other’s hair, Wynn-Williams charged in the explosive Tell-All.
On the way, Sandberg instructed Wynn-Williams to buy underwear for both of them, regardless of the cost. According to a book review released by the New York Times on Monday, March 10, the last bill for underwear hit $13,000.
According to the Book Review, a sleeping Sandberg obviously became very annoyed when Wynn-Williams in pajamas refused to join her proposal to “the only bed on the plane” when she refused to fly home on a private plane.
Sandberg
Williams left the company in 2017 and then renamed it Meta.
“This is a mixture of obsolete and previously reported claims about the company and false allegations against our executives,” a Yuan spokesman told the Post.
“Eight years ago, Sarah Wynn-Williams was fired for poor performance and toxic behavior, and an investigation conducted at the time determined her misleading and unfounded allegations of harassment.”
“She has received salary from opposing book activists since then, and that’s just a continuation of the work,” the spokesperson added.
“The whistleblower’s identity protects communication with the government rather than dissatisfied activists who are trying to sell books,” a Yuan spokesman said.
According to comments, Wynn Williams also recalled Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s top policy director, who was engaged in the behavior that made her feel deeply uncomfortable.
Kaplan, a former Marine Corps and ex-boyfriend of Harvard University’s Sandberg’s, served as Facebook’s vice president of U.S. policy and eventually became Wynn-Williams’ boss before becoming vice president of global policy.
Kaplan, a conservative who has a deep relationship with Republican politics, once pressured her on the dance floor of a work event, commented that she looked “sultry” and her remarks about her husband’s remarks were disturbing.
As she almost stood out from amniotic fluid embolism while giving birth to her second child, Kaplan continued to email her throughout her maternity leave and insisted on weekly videoconferences.
Even though she explained that she needed other surgery because she was still bleeding, Kaplan reportedly pressed her: “But where are you bleeding?”
According to The Times’ comments on the book, an internal Facebook investigation ultimately cleared Kaplan out of any misconduct.
According to sources familiar with the situation, the company’s investigation into the claim spanned 42 days.
Former Yuan employee Sarah Feinberg entered the social media platform thread to defend her former employer and Kaplan.
“I left Facebook/Meta more than a decade ago and returned to government services, so it’s been a minute…but this book overlaps with all the years I’ve been there, and the author is one of my colleagues. While everyone is certainly entitled to their own opinions and their own experience, I don’t recognize the company, the leader or the time I’m there,” Feinberg wrote on the lead.
Feinberg added that she “has participated in a lot of these activities – I worked on some of these projects – and the descriptions are not even close.”
She also defended Kaplan, writing: “I have been working with Joel Kaplan on Facebook for years – who is one of my closest colleagues – and I have never observed him as professional, thoughtful, thoughtful, strategic and fair.”
Meanwhile, Wynn-Williams describes CEO Mark Zuckerberg as someone who has moved from focusing on coding and engineering to the executive consumed by politics and public worship, according to the Times.
Wynn-Williams was allegedly instructed to arrange a crowd of more than 1 million people to ensure he “gently siege” when traveling to Indonesia.
At one point, he told Wynn-Williams that President Andrew Jackson, known for signing the Indian Dismissal Act, was the greatest CEO in the United States because he “does the job well.”
Wynn-Williams’ memoir has been kept by publishers a few days before Tuesday’s release.
She provides a stern insider narrative to the insiders of the company’s leaders, portraying them as longing, irresponsible, indifferent to the consequences of their actions.
In this book, Wynn Williams compares Zuckerberg and Sandberg to the “careless man” of “Big Gatsby” and smashes things and lets others deal with the consequences.
The book also details Facebook’s secret attempt to re-enter the Chinese market through a project called “Aldrin”, which involves partnerships, review tools and data sharing advice.
According to Wynn-Williams, Zuckerberg sought consent with the Chinese Communists.
These efforts include “providing CCP officials with briefings on new technologies such as artificial intelligence, developing customized review tools using CCP, and working to hide Meta’s collaboration with CCP from the U.S. Congress.”
