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Meta’s efforts to neutralize Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book, filled with talkative anecdotes, feel less to defend her reputation than need to punish a transferring– Mark Zuckerberg could be in his time of check after the postman. But that did not prevent Meta from taking care of the author of Careless People.
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