Meta takes the goal of the memoirs of the former employee “important people”

Mita won a legal victory this week against Sarah Win Williams, the former employee who recently published a Notes From her time in the company entitled “Careless People: A warning story of power, greed and idealism lost.”

tight Ruling The company has provided a valid case that Wynn-Williams, which worked on Facebook (Meta now) from 2011 to 2017, has violated the non-lighting agreement signed when leaving the company. The ruler states that Wynn-Williams is temporarily banned from promotion-or to “somewhat in its control (for her), from publishing or distribution”-her book to conclude private arbitration.

However, “important people” are still available for purchase, and it may actually be Take advantage of the “Streisand Effect”, “ In any attempts to suppress the information, you only work to publish it. As of Sunday noon, “Al -Mahmloun” was the best -selling book number three Amazon across.

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, however, that it is “horrific from the Meta tactics to silence (its author) by using the condition of not showing in a 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.”

“Important People” offers what Description of the New York Times references As a “funny and traumatic” look inside Facebook – especially its relationship with China and other governments. Wynn-Williams in Facebook included the 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), work on politics on Facebook was less similar to running a chapter of Machiavelli and is more like watching a group of children between the ages of fourteen years and who got the great powers and a fierce amount of money, because they are a jet all over the world to know what the authority bought and brought.”

Wayne Williams According to what was reported, the complaints reported to the violations Although the US Securities and Stock Exchange Committee claims that, in its passion for working in China, Facebook created a plan in 2015 to install a “editor -in -chief” who was able to monitor specific content or stop the site in China on behalf of the ruling party in the country.

In a statement, a Meta spokesman described “unacceptable persons” as “a mixture of old and previously reported allegations about (Meta) and wrong accusations about our executives,” Wynn-Williams described “an eight-year-old employee 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” also tells uncomfortable confrontations between Joel Kaplan, Vice President of Global Policy, Win Williams, who Claims He put himself against her in a work event, describing her as a “shell”, and gave “strange comments” about her husband.

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

The current and previous Facebook employees also criticized Wynn-Williams notes. Former Mike Ronilin He said He sat next to Sarah for 18 months when we worked at 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 discuss Meta’s reaction in Inside business The interview was conducted in front of the arbitration referee, the description of criticism from 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.”