When Kiwis Attack... A Long Overdue Book About Facebook's Criminal Negligence But Where's The Talk of the Spies?
Another dispatch from the Facebook wars
I read with rapt attention New Zealand diplomat-turned-whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams’s best-selling book, Careless People last weekend. The arrest of Special Agent Johnathan Buma stopped me from publishing so here it is, at last. You should see Ms. Wynn-Williams as having lost out to the much more important matter of Special Agent Buma though as we shall see the two subjects are linked as Buma was tasked with infiltrating the compromised billionaires in Los Angeles.
For what it’s worth I liked the book and its title is, of course, lifted from The Great Gatsby’s line about Tom and Daisy Buchanan. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
I liked the book and you know I love The Great Gatsby but truthfully I don’t think there’s a carelessness here as much as there’s a calculation. I think this is more of the same Chisrael alliance that brought us the Sackler family — a sort of Jewish shamelessness and Chinese mercantilism that’s harming the planet, democracy and our children. Their children are exempt, of course. Their tots aren’t allowed Facebook — it’s banned in China — or play with wooden montessori toys. The old saw that children should be seen and not heard is apparently too much for the girl bosses of Facebook who, as Sheryl Sandberg notes, have their kids raised by Filipinas. As much as I hate Sheryl, she’s not wrong. Filipinas really are great. But maybe we should do something about how some 100 million people are in such a precarious and economically disadvantaged state?
But in seeking to be seen to be a mother without actually being a mother Sheryl Sandberg makes clear that fraud and deception are key ingredients in Facebook’s rise. No matter. Sheryl can always make aliyaah. What’s Israel for if not for running away from your criminal activity? And sure enough Facebook’s Queen Jewess Sheryl Sandberg is involved in the cover up of October 7th. To the extent she donates to charity it’s to Israeli charities. There’s no talk at all about how her nebbishy husband died under extremely suspicious circumstances in Mexico. Supposedly he was but to see a photo of him is to know that he wasn’t going on any treadmills. I’d probably have a heart attack too if I were married to Sheryl.
Around that time word broke that Facebook marketplaces was being used to launder millions in stolen goods by Mexican cartels. Sheryl’s aide de camp — Deborah Liu — was involved before running to Ancestry.com, the Mormon-founded genealogical company. Liu has since quit and been replaced by a stronger supporter of the IDF and Technion. OK.
At Facebook Sheryl Sandberg’s first major project was facilitating organ trafficking — just like the Odessa mob from whence she is descended. You’re supposed to ignore this because to note it is considered anti-Semitism or something. Whatever. I don’t want to be Palestinianized, do you?
To her credit Wynn-Williams lays out all the myriad ways in which the Chinese dictatorship pays off the largely Jewish leadership. She says it’s 18 billion but I suspect it’s much higher. Wynn-Williams doesn’t say this but then again she doesn’t really have to. The rise of far right parties around the world benefits the Chinese who want to weaken America and push us into a multipolar world. She pointed out the irony of when an unnamed board member — was it Thiel? was it Andreessen? she doesn’t say! — envisioned the largely Jewish leadership of Facebook encouraging the rise of far right European political movements, some of which were started by ex-Nazis.
What Wynn-Williams doesn’t mention is how much that project aligns with Netanyahu’s goals, too. That Nazis and Likudniks — but I repeat myself — would find common cause in dismantling the post-World War II order —and would Facebook to do it — is an altogether fascinating historical turn. When you learn that a lot of the IDF was trained by Nazis you really start to wonder about the conventional narrative of World War II.
No, I’ve long thought that Facebook is an attack first on the children of the Western elite than on everyone else. It’s a political project and I suspect that Wynn-Williams understands this too so I read Careless People carefully. She knows that it’s become standard in recent years for tech companies to sue you if you expose their fraud or criminality. To that end she carefully registered as a whistleblower with the Securities and Exchange Commission before Facebook tried to gag her in arbitration. She can’t promote the book, per an arbitration ruling, but if anything that’s increased her sales.
Gagging your critics has become standard fare for these Chisraeli companies. I’ve been going through a rather similar thing with Clearview.Ai as I expose its fraudulent activity so I can appreciate Ms. Wynn-Williams's approach.
Is the London-based, Kiwi-raised mother of three who we have been looking for to take on Facebook? I hope so. I’d love to believe that a mother might have the courage to end something we should have shut down long ago. If not for our kids, then for hers. I had hoped that Clearview.AI might be used to protect the weak and the vulnerable but now that I see its ex-CEO is going to be working on private credit and AI I really wonder.
Since the book came out there’s a curious detail where Wynn-William is being accused by Elliott Schrage of being an “unreliable narrator” but Schrage lost whatever credibility he might have had as a human rights operator when he was covering for Facebook’s wanton criminality. Indeed Schrage’s whole human rightsy career is an abject lesson in how some Jews use the Holocaust or human rights as a cover for more nefarious wrongdoing.
Schrage worked with GOP hachet man Tim Miller whose book I reviewed a few years ago.
Miller is trying, after a fashion, to reform himself. Now that he’s a father I wonder how he feels about how worked hard to stop accountability for Facebook.
I wonder about that a lot for a lot of the people around Facebook, especially Peter Thiel who now has four children with his husband.
Of course I’ve long been a part of the resistance to that Facebook project but long time readers of this Substack know that well. Search the archives! Search the archives!
Peter and I had been quietly exposing that not all was right with Facebook for a long time. I leaked the infamous letter where board member Reed Hastings bashed Peter for being a Trump supporter and gave him a bad performance review.
And I introduced Palmer Luckey — before Anduril — to The Wall Street Journal where they detailed that Zuckerberg had fired Palmer for backing Trump.
I’ve known Peter Thiel for the better part of a decade and a half. Thiel was quite clear that Facebook is a high margin monopoly that was slowly eliminating the media. He saw this as a good thing. At the time I agreed. But the Australian approach of forcing Facebook to pay media was a necessary corrective.
Naturally Wynn-Williams is quick to deride the “growth-at-all costs approach” is a “very American thing” and yet she admits that Facebook doesn’t look like America at all. It’s actually a very Jewish thing. Indeed everyone in Wynn-Williams chain of command is a Harvard-educated Jew, irrespective of political party.
Williams lays it out a few times when she describes the installment of Joel Kaplan, the Federalist Society member and Republican operative, she credibly accuses of sexual harassment:
It isn’t a complete surprise. Joel, the former Bush aide, is coming from the role of vice president for US policy. Plus he’s Sheryl’s ex-boyfriend, and by now I’ve realized that Facebook’s leadership includes a web of people all entangled as bridesmaids, best friends, neighbors, and axes. Their fealty is seemingly to each other, their tribe, ahead of any ideology or anything else. Their pasts, presents, and futures are all deeply intertwined in a way that mine are not. They hire each other for jobs with big salaries, responsible for each other’s promotions and bonuses. A tiny enmehsed group of people increasingly responsible for shaping the attention of billions. Their preferences turned into policy.
We need some DEI up in here, don’t we? Or is it anti-semitic to note that the Jews of Facebook cover for one another? Peter Thiel once told me that Sheryl Sandberg didn’t want to hire a bunch of minority — Black and Hispanics — because there weren’t enough Black and Hispanic programmers in the country to make Facebook reflect the American population. Maybe. Or maybe they didn’t even try. In any event, to assuage the DEI types, they hired American Express’s Ken Chenault, who is Black, to be on the board and the diversity gods appeared to be satiated.
Kaplan was tied into the Federalist Society, which has all kinds of connections to Barre Seid, the long time Likudnik billionaire. The Opus Dei types are all around FedSoc. Now Wynn-Williams doesn’t go there with their Russian connections though she might have. She mentions, en passant, that the first time that Zuckerberg traveled to a foreign country while she was there was to Russia and that he was nervous and sweaty in that meeting. I wonder why.
Now it’s long been my contention that Zuckerberg acquired a number of companies as a bribe to the foreign interests who could conceivably regulate Facebook.
You need long no further than the fact that early Oculus investor Joe Lonsdale has Russian-Jewish cash in his venture fund or that Oculus was co-founded by a Russian national.
With American regulators fast on his heels, Zuckerberg was forced to pretend that the future of Facebook was virtual reality. He even went so far as to rebrand the company Meta. You can almost here him now, doing his best defense:
“Your Honor, I strongly believed that people would prefer the fake reality of the metaverse.”
“But if you believed AI was the future why were you scooping up Hawaiian real estate?”
Zuckerberg’s pouring of billions into the Metaverse — which no one saw fit to stop — was a bit like when Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, head of the Genovese crime family, faked insanity for three decades to stay ahead of law enforcement.
Is Zuck faking being in the cult? Or is he its richest member? Do the best cult leaders know they are in on the cult? Or do they convert themselves first?
The Facebook nepotism is crazy. And rather hilariously there was even an attempt by Sheryl Sandberg to bring her Likudnik parents to a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. We’ve discussed that whole thing elsewhere.
Wynn-Williams notes that the intense pre-trip security briefs were “delivered by buff Israelis” and that Mark relied on Israeli technology to know which companies to buy. Of course he does.
I met Mark Zuckerberg long ago when both he and I were very young. I took an immediate dislike to him. I was never impressed. I am not impressed now. You can have billions of dollars but you’re still a bitch. I don’t care how much Krav Maga you do. Fight me, Mark!
Zuckerberg as the Miami Jew isn’t a good look though given that Facebook was initially founded in Florida. Perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised. No amount of media glazing will change that he’s a predator.
“Mark wears many costumes,” said Wynn-Williams recently in an interview. So do clowns. Or shapeshifters.
Now as for Ms. Wynn-Williams.
I welcome the Five Eyes attack on Chisrael. Say isn’t Substack also British? Didn’t I hire a British law firm to sue Clearview.AI? Huh.
It’s all very Chinese. It’s all very Israeli. It’s all very Chisraeli. To be sure it feels as if Facebook is an extension of Unit 8200 in much the same way that 23 & Me or Ancestry DNA have become extensions of of Unit 504. Are we really ignoring that Nick Clegg left Facebook and Joel Kaplan took on a new outsized role?
Just as there is an effort to take that genetic data away from the now bankrupt 2 & Me or Family Tree DNA before it, so, too, does it appear as if Facebook is the final boss.
And Ms. Wynn-Williams is a worthy contender. She really puts us in the room at Facebook.
But no, I don’t I terribly buy her story about being swept up in the soft-headed international liberalism. Maybe… but I think not.
With this frame the recent turn against Facebook smacks of a Five Eyes infiltration operation. Wynn-Williams is neither an activist nor a whistleblower but an insurgent. No worries, mate, she’s just an “A.I. researcher” now. Right, of course, she is. How could I forget?
Notwithstanding the heady subject matter — it seems obvious that Facebook fomented a genocide, for example — I have to say that I found Careless People rather fun. There’s both an immediacy and a permanence that Wynn-Williams strikes throughout. She can be forgiven the tripe of the disillusioned. I myself have used the convention for discussing my youthful associations with Trumpism. I was a lot younger than Wynn-Williams was when she joined Facebook. Still, autobiography is the highest form of fiction.
Comprendre c’est tout pardonner. And I, for one, enjoyed the little tête-à-tête she had with Bari Weiss, in which Weiss defended Queen Jewess Sheryl Sandberg’s practice of taking female subordinates to bed with her aboard the private jet. Was Weiss telling on herself? Stay tuned! Do you really believe that all those paid subscribers to Bari Weiss are legit? Come on now.
It’s always nice when another joins the fight against Facebook and towards the end there are even a few passing mentions of operations I was involved in against the company.
Yes, I helped force Peter Thiel out of Facebook and yes, I saved him.
I might have a few life boats left but it seems as if greed is getting the better part of a lot of the Silicon Valley types I know. What a shame.
Harriet Tubman didn’t really say “I freed a thousand slaves I would have freed a ten thousand more if they had realized they were slaves.”
But had she, she might have been talking about Silicon Valley.
When the bubble bursts, not everyone is going to make it.
Turkey falls after China.
"But maybe we should do something about how some 100 million people are in such a precarious and economically disadvantaged state?"
Aiming higher: 8 billion-ish