How Meta tried to silence a tell-all book and failed

[canetoad]

Sarah Wynn-Williams was preparing for a television appearance one evening last week when the news popped up on social media: Meta had won an arbitration case banning her from promoting her tell-all memoir about her years working for the social media company. No need to get up at 5am for the interview – the segment was spiked.

On the basis of a non-disparagement agreement Wynn-Williams signed when she was fired by Meta in 2017, the independent arbiter ruled that the former Meta executive cannot grant any of the nearly 100 interview requests she has received from journalists from print and broadcast news outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid legal issues.



The order also bars her from talking with lawmakers in the US, London and the European Union, according to a legal challenge she lodged against the ruling.

Meta’s legal action is the company’s latest move in a weeks-long campaign to undercut Wynn-Williams, a former global policy director for the company, and her 400-page memoir, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.

More: https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/how-meta-tried-to-silence-a-tell-all-book-and-failed-20250323-p5lls4.html

Or https://archive.md/1c3Pa

[CincyDem]

1. The Barbara Streisand effect.

Saw the story.
Read the book.

Pretty brutal takedown the entire Meta leadership team.

Remember, this is a company that was founded by a bunch of bros at Harvard stealing women’s photos from the registrar’s database so they could run a “hot-or-not” website. Leopards don’t change their spots.

[luv2fly]

2. "But... but... all my friends are on Facebook!"

[insert giant yawn about here]