Wynn-Williams pitches a global diplomacy role to Facebook's VP of policy, who shows interest only when warned about regulations threatening growth.

The Arab Spring breaks out and Facebook's VP of policy calls Wynn-Williams to ask whether Zuckerberg should take credit for it.

An earthquake strikes Wynn-Williams's hometown in New Zealand, demonstrating Facebook's crisis value; Facebook soon hires her as manager of global public policy.

Zuckerberg refuses to meet New Zealand's visiting prime minister, who seizes a hallway encounter to force an awkward handshake and photo.

Germany opens an investigation into Facebook after Sandberg offends a visiting German delegation with an inappropriate comment about being Jewish.

Facebook surpasses one billion users and its leaders, fearing they are running out of road, urgently shift focus to international expansion.

A pregnant Wynn-Williams is sent to Myanmar, where junta officials confiscate her passport and interrogate her in a dimly lit court.

Zuckerberg joins Indonesia's president-elect for a spontaneous village visit and becomes captivated by the enormous political adulation directed at them both.

At Russia's request, Facebook blocks a protest page for opposition leader Alexei Navalny, drawing a public rebuke from the US State Department.

Zuckerberg arrives late and unprepared for Colombia's president, who backs out of endorsing Internet.org and leaves Zuckerberg alone on stage.

At Davos, Sandberg secretly negotiates a five-year tax exemption with Ireland's prime minister while Wynn-Williams's advice that Facebook pay taxes is ignored.

India bans Free Basics after Facebook floods the country's regulator with nearly 17 million automated form letters in a manipulated mass campaign.

The Trump campaign uses Facebook's tools to spread disinformation, micro-target voters, and suppress Democratic turnout, while Zuckerberg publicly dismisses any connection.

Myanmar's military uses Facebook in a coordinated campaign to incite hatred and violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority, culminating in genocide.

A sham investigation clears Kaplan of harassment charges and Wynn-Williams is fired shortly after, allegedly for not growing her team fast enough.

Sarah Wynn-Williams secures a role at Facebook after convincing leadership that foreign governments could threaten the company's growth, beginning her journey through its expanding global ambitions. As Facebook's user count surges past one billion, its leaders abandon any pretense of idealism and pivot urgently to international markets, sending a pregnant Wynn-Williams into dangerous territory with no concern for her safety. Zuckerberg's diplomatic failures mount as he offends world leaders and sacrifices key partnerships, while the company schemes to make politicians financially dependent on its platform. The 2016 Trump campaign weaponizes Facebook's tools to spread disinformation and suppress voters, and Zuckerberg dismisses all responsibility for the outcome. In Myanmar, the platform is used by the military to orchestrate genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, with Facebook's leadership doing nothing to intervene. Wynn-Williams is ultimately fired after a sham investigation shields her harasser, a final demonstration of the carelessness that defines the company she once believed in.

The headline events that drove Facebook's global rise and collapse of responsibility.

A thirteen-year-old Wynn-Williams survives a shark attack and writes 'I SAVED MYSELF' on a notepad while on a ventilator in hospital.

Sandberg announces to a visiting German delegation that she is Jewish because of the Holocaust, creating palpable tension in the meeting room.

Facebook holds a policy summit to define its global role; Sandberg's organ donation initiative is ultimately rejected by the company's engineers.

Sandberg demands that Wynn-Williams email her talking points for a meeting while Wynn-Williams is about to give birth to her first child.

During a Lean In promotion trip to Japan, Wynn-Williams sneaks an unauthorized photo of Prime Minister Abe holding the book, angering him.

Wynn-Williams endures excruciating pain during a jungle trip in Colombia because there is no private space for her to breastfeed or pump.

Facebook plans to send a breastfeeding Wynn-Williams to South Korea ahead of Zuckerberg to determine whether Facebook representatives would be arrested on arrival.

During the Asia trip, Zuckerberg reveals he reveres Andrew Jackson as ruthless and populist, making no mention of Jackson's treatment of Indigenous peoples.

Joel Kaplan replaces Levine as VP of global public policy and builds an advertising team to make politicians financially dependent on Facebook.

Zuckerberg announces at the United Nations that Facebook plans to bring Internet access to refugee camps, despite no actual plan existing.

On a flight home from Davos, Sandberg asks Wynn-Williams to come to bed with her; when refused, their working relationship permanently shifts.

Facebook VP Diego Dzodan is arrested in Brazil while Zuckerberg ignores his plight and obsesses over the wording of his own social media post.

Wynn-Williams suffers an amniotic fluid embolism during childbirth, is placed on life support, and wakes from a coma to learn her baby's name.

President Obama meets privately with Zuckerberg and warns him about Facebook's destructive global role; Zuckerberg leaves the meeting furious.

Kaplan publicly sits behind Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, on Facebook company time, in a show of political support.

Beginning with the childhood shark attack that forged Wynn-Williams's resilience, this pool follows the personal experiences that strip away Facebook's idealistic facade. Sandberg's celebrated feminist image collides repeatedly with her private behavior, from demanding talking points during labor to offending foreign officials and making a false claim about narrowly escaping a plane crash. Facebook's disregard for Wynn-Williams as a working mother is relentless, manifesting in dangerous travel assignments with no accommodation for pregnancy or breastfeeding. Pivotal moments like the arrest of a Facebook executive in Brazil reveal Zuckerberg's chilling indifference to his own employees, while Wynn-Williams's near-fatal childbirth deepens her resolve to leave. Obama's private warning to Zuckerberg about the company's global destruction is dismissed, and the power dynamics of Davos reveal how Facebook has made itself indispensable to the world's political elite. The pool closes on Kaplan's brazen public show of loyalty to a Supreme Court nominee on company time, a symbol of the impunity that defines Facebook's leadership.

The personal and behind-the-scenes moments that expose Facebook's real culture.

While working as a diplomat in Washington, Wynn-Williams identifies Facebook as an untapped tool for political persuasion and government surveillance.

Zuckerberg sends Wynn-Williams an email saying 'I am overruling you' after she challenges Sandberg's proposal to launch a global organ donation initiative.

Facebook goes public, raising $16 billion and valuing Zuckerberg at approximately $19 billion, intensifying pressure for relentless growth at any cost.

Zuckerberg sends an internal memo about entering China with no acknowledgment of the moral complexity of operating in an authoritarian surveillance state.

Wynn-Williams concludes that needing to explain the Nuremberg defense to Facebook's China team leader Vaughn Smith is probably a red flag.

Zuckerberg issues an edict that content will only be removed at a government's request if there is a credible threat to block Facebook.

Zuckerberg calls a meeting ordering his team to use street fighter tactics to force Free Basics into India and other resistant markets.

Following Davos, Sandberg emails that Facebook should make politicians depend on the platform to win elections, a shift Wynn-Williams calls far-reaching.

At a board meeting on government concerns about hate speech, a member suggests Facebook cultivate closer ties to right-wing political parties.

Wynn-Williams discovers she has Lynch syndrome, making health insurance essential and trapping her at Facebook until she can secure another job.

A secret group of nearly 200 female Facebook employees forms the Feminist Fight Club, motivating Wynn-Williams to formally report Kaplan a second time.

Zuckerberg testifies before the US Senate about Facebook's China operations, lying about its policies while the company's stock price rises afterward.

Facebook secretly launches two apps in China through shell companies, violating Chinese law while hiding the operations from investors and Congress.

Kaplan blocks the hire of a qualified Myanmar specialist, allowing hate speech and inflammatory posts to proliferate unchecked as genocide approaches.

Now working on AI weapons negotiations, Wynn-Williams warns that the same careless leaders are bringing their reckless approach to artificial intelligence.

This pool traces the intellectual and moral turning points that transformed Facebook from a platform of idealistic potential into a vehicle for authoritarian accommodation and political manipulation. Wynn-Williams's early recognition of Facebook's political power is gradually corrupted as Zuckerberg begins overruling community standards and pursuing the Chinese market with no ethical framework whatsoever. The company's strategy quietly shifts from building diplomatic goodwill to making politicians financially dependent on the platform, while street fighter tactics are deployed against regulators who dare push back. Personal revelations sharpen the stakes, from Wynn-Williams's Lynch syndrome diagnosis trapping her inside the company to the Feminist Fight Club finally moving her to take formal action against her harasser. Zuckerberg's congressional testimony marks a decisive moment of institutional deception, as he lies about China while the stock price rewards him for it. The pool ends with Wynn-Williams outside Facebook, warning that the same careless leaders are now steering the even more dangerous frontier of artificial intelligence.