All the President's men
When the world's second richest man, Meta's Zuckerberg, was displeased with the revelations of an ex-employee, Sarah Wynn-Williams, on unsavoury behaviour inside the company, he tried to prevent Wynn-Williams' tell-all book, Careless People from being sold in the US (it had already appeared in the UK).
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