Meta takes aim at ex-employee’s memoir ‘Careless People’

Mita won a legal victory this week against Sarah Win Williams, the former employee who recently published notes for her time in the company entitled “Careless People: A Talery Tale of Power, and Greed, and Lost Idealism.”

One of the arbitrators has eliminated that the company had provided a valid argument that Wayne Williams, who worked on Facebook (now Meta) from 2011 to 2017, has violated the non -separation agreement signed upon when the company leaves. The ruler states that Wynn-Williams is temporarily banned from promotion-or a “somewhat inside [her] Control, from further publishing or distribution ” – her book to conclude private arbitration.

However, “important people” are still available for purchase, and may benefit from “Streisand” effect, as attempts to suppress information only work to publish it. From Sunday noon, “Careless People” was a three -selling book on Amazon.

McMelan, who published “heterogeneous persons”, wrote through the Flatiron imprint, in a statement that the arbitrator’s decision “has no effect” on the publisher and that he will “completely continue to support and promote the book.”

The publisher added that it is “horrific from dead tactics to silence [its] Specificated by using the condition of non -removal in the separation agreement. “

McMilalan said: “To be clear, the arrangement of the arbitrator does not indicate claims within the important people,” McMahlan said. “The book has gone through the overall liberation and liberation process, and we remain committed to publishing important books like this.”

“Careless People” offers what the New York Times references described as “a funny and shocking look” inside Facebook – especially his relationship with China and other governments. (Wynn-Williams in Facebook included work as director of global public policy.)

Wayne Williams wrote in the notes: “I was there for seven years, and if I had to summarize it in a sentence, I would like to say that it started as an optimistic comedy and ended in the dark and remorse.”

She added, “[M]Ost Days, work on politics on Facebook was less like a separation age than Machiavelli and is more like watching a group of children between fourteen years old and who got great powers and a fierce amount of money, because they are jet all over the world to know what the power I bought and brought. “

According to Wynn-Williams, the complaints of the violations were complained to the US Securities and Exchange Committee claiming that in his passion for working in China, Facebook created a plan in 2015 to install “editor-in-chief” was able to monitor specific content or close the site in China on behalf of the ruling party in the country.

In a statement, a Meta spokesman described “the important people” as “a mixture of excessive and previously reported allegations about the allegations [Meta] The wrong accusations of our executives, “Win Williams described” an employee who was finished eight years ago for weak performance. “

“We do not manage our services in China today,” Meta spokesman continued. “It is not a secret that we were interested in doing this as part of the Facebook efforts to link the world. This was widely reported from a decade. We finally chose not to pass the ideas that we explored, which Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2019.”

“Important Persons” tells uncomfortable meetings between Joel Kaplan, Vice -President of World Public Policy for Global Policy, Wayne Williams, who claims to weaken her at a work event, describing her as a “leader”, and made strange comments from her husband.

Mita said she was investigating Win -Williams’s allegations of harassment and found it “misleading and unfounded.”

As for whether the company is simply trying to silence the criticism of those who report violations, the spokesman said, “Putting the amounts of violations protects the communications to the government, and not the disturbing activists who are trying to sell books.”

The current and previous Facebook employees also criticized Wynn-Williams notes. Former marriage, Mike Renlian, said that “he sat next to Sarah for 18 months when we worked in the New York office” and claimed that the book “has a lot of lies in it, so I will not even know where to start.”

Wynn-Williams discussed Meta’s reaction in an interview with the business that was conducted in front of the arbitration referee, describing the company and former co-co-workers as deviations. In response to a question about whether the book has been examined, she said: “I think this dead problem is used to not answer the same questions. What I like is not to fall into distraction.”