Face book: How Meta's attempt to bury an exposé backfired

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  The main character in Sarah Wynne-Williams' book about life inside Facebook is not Mark Zuckerberg,

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  the social network's founder and boss,

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  nor is it Sheryl Sandberg, its ex-chief operating officer,

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  though she dwells on both in riveting detail.

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  It is the author herself.

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  Her memoir starts with the story of being attacked by a shark

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  while swimming in her native New Zealand when she was 13.

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  Further horror stories ensue.

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  As head of global policy at Facebook, now Metta,

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  until she was fired in 2017, she casts herself as a lonely crusader,

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  risking jail in South Korea and abduction by the junta in Myanmar,

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  all naively for the cause of promoting Facebook as a way to make the world a better place.

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  She revels in dramatic effect.

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  The more self-righteous and gory, the better.

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  In contrast,

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