Meta strives for the former employee’s Memoir “negligent people”

Meta won a legal victory this week against Sarah Win-Waliams, a former employee who recently published a memoir From her time in the company, entitled “negligent people: a warning tale of power, greed and lost idealism.”

Arbitrator ruled The fact that Wynn-Williams, who has worked on Facebook (now Meta) from 2011 to 2017, may have violated the disagreement agreement she has signed when she leaves the company. The decision states that Wynn-Williams is temporarily forbidden to encourage-or to “to the extent of (its) control, from further publication or distribution”-the book until private arbitration is over.

However, “negligent people” remain available for purchase and can actually be in favor of the “Streisand Effect” in which attempts to suppress information serve only for more publication. As of Sunday afternoon, “negligent people” was a book with more selling number three throughout the AmazonS

Macmillan, who publishes “negligent people” through his Flatoron book prints, said in a statement that the arbitrator’s decision “has no influence” on the publisher and that “will absolutely continue to support and promote the book”.

However, the publisher added that he was “horrified by the Meta tactics to remain silent (his) author by using a non-discipline clause in an compensation agreement.”

“To be clear, the arbitrator’s order does not refer to the claims in negligent people,” McMila said. “The book has gone through an in -depth editing and verification process and we remain committed to publishing important books like this.”

“Casual people” suggests what Described a New York Times reviewer As “dark funny and truly shocking,” it looks inside Facebook – in particular its relationship with China and other governments. The roles of Wynn-Williams on Facebook have included as director of global public policy.

“I was there for seven years, and if I had to summarize it in a sentence, I would say that it started as an encouraging comedy and ended with darkness and regret,” Win-Waliams wrote in the memoir.

She added, “(m) Ost Days, Facebook’s work was much less like introducing a head from Machiavelli, and rather as watching a bunch of fourteen-year-olds who received superpowers and an inferior amount of money, as they are thrown around the world to understand what bought them and brought to power.”

Wynn-Williams It is reported that he filed a complaint to submit signals With the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which claims that in its desire to work in China, Facebook has set up a plan in 2015 to install a “editor -in -chief” that could censor a certain content or close the site in China on behalf of the country’s ruling party.

In a statement, a Meta spokesman described “negligent people” as “a combination of obsolete and previously reported allegations of (meta) and false accusations for our leaders” and described Win-Wylymas was “an employee terminated eight years ago for poor performance.”

“Today we do not manage our services in China,” the Meta spokesman continued. “It’s no secret that once we were interested in this as part of Facebook’s efforts to connect the world. This was widely reported in the beginning of the decade. In the end, we decided not to go through the ideas we have studied that Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2019. “

The “negligent people” also tell uncomfortable meetings between Joel Kaplan, now Vice President of Meta on Global Public Policy, and Wynn-Williams, which who who who who who who claims He landed against her at a working event, describes her as “sweaty” and made “strange comments” for her husband.

Meta said it was investigating Wynn-Williams’ allegations of harassment and found them “misleading and unfounded”.

Current and former Facebook employees have also criticized Wynn-Williams’ memoir. Former Cassech Mike Roglien said He “sat next to Sarah for 18 months when we both worked at the New York office” and said the book “There are so many lies in it that I wouldn’t even know where to start.”

Wynn-Williams discussed the retreat of Meta in business interior The interview took place before the arbitration award, characterizing criticism by the company and former colleagues as distraction. Asked if the book was checked, she said: “I think the problem with Meta is to use it so as not to answer the questions themselves. What I would like is not to get into distraction. “