“Careless People” hits the top of the New York Times bestsellers list
It seems that Meta’s campaign to bury a memoir by a former employee is not working. In fact, it seems that the legal maneuvers of the company block the book had the exact opposite effect.
Casual people has debuted in to New York Times Bestsellers list. Moreover is a major part of the week in Amazon’s number three S This is despite the fact that Sarah Win-Wiliams, a former Facebook policy director from promoting or public discussion of the book after court action by META.
The memoir describes in detail a large part of Facebook’s internal work in almost seven years Wynn-Williams works there. Reveal For the ruthless ambition of the company to bring the social network in China as well as numerous About how Mark Zuckerberg, Cheryl Sandberg and other executives held behind closed doors. (In addition to your revelations in Casual peopleWynn-Williams has also filed with the Securities and Exchange Committee. This complaint has not been publicly announced, but according to NBC NewsShe claims that Facebook “misleads” investors.)
Meta has been forcibly against Wynn-Williams and the book, describing it in a statement as “a combination of outdated and has previously reported allegations of the company and false accusations of our leaders.” The company says Wynn-Williams was fired in 2017 “For poor performance and toxic behavior”.
Meta initiated arbitration proceedings against Wynn-Williams last week, which led to a decision that does not allow it to be publicly discussing or encouraging work so far. But as the bestsellers show, this move did not do a little to kill an interest in the work.
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