Meta aims at the memories of the former employee of “ neglected ” ‘

Meta won a legal victory this week against Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee who recently published a memory of his time to the company entitled “Reckless people: a story of power of power, greed and lost idealism”.

A referee judge The fact that the company pleaded valid that Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook (now META) from 2011 to 2017, may have violated the non-debt agreement she signed during the company. The decision stipulates that Wynn -Williams is temporarily prohibited to promote – or “to the extent [her] Control, edition or additional distribution ”- his book until the end of private arbitration.

However, “reckless people” remain available for purchase and can actually be benefit from “the Streisand effect”, in which attempts to delete information only serve to make it known more. Since Sunday afternoon, the “reckless people” were the third successful book through all Amazon.

Macmillan, who published “Careless People” via his Flateron fingerprint books, said in a statement that the referee’s decision “has no impact” on the publisher and that she “will absolutely continue to support and promote” the book.

The editor, however, added that he is “dismayed by Meta’s tactics in silence [its] Author through a non-circularly clause in a starting agreement. »»

“To be clear, the referee’s order makes no reference to complaints within neglected persons,” said Macmillan. “The book has undergone a process of in-depth assembly and verification, and we remain determined to publish important books like this.”

“Careless people” offers what A critic of the New York Times described As “dark funny and truly shocking” inside Facebook – in particular its relations with China and other governments. The roles of Wynn-Williams on Facebook included the position of 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 a comedy full of hope and ended in darkness and regret,” wrote Wynn-Williams in the memory.

She added, “[M]Ost Days, working on Facebook politics, it was much less like promulgating a chapter of Machiavelli and much more like looking at a bunch of fourteen who received superpowers and an impious money, while they are moving around the world to determine what power has bought and brought. “”

Wynn-Williams would have filed a complaint for denunciation With the American Commission Securities and Exchange alleging that, in its eagerness to operate in China, Facebook created a plan in 2015 to install a “editor” which could have censored certain content or close the site in China in the name of the country’s power party.

In a statement, a Meta spokesperson described “reckless people” as “a mixture of obsolete complaints and previously reported on [Meta] And false accusations about our leaders “and described Wynn-Williams is” a dismissed employee eight years ago for poor performance “.

“We are not keeping our services in China today,” said Meta spokesman. “It was not a secret for anyone that we were once interested in doing so as part of Facebook’s efforts to connect the world. This was widely reported from ten years ago. We finally chose not to pass with the ideas we had explored, which Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2019. ”

“Careless people” also tells the uncomfortable meetings between Joel Kaplan, now vice-president of Meta’s global public policy, and Wynn-Williams, who complaints He was based against her during a work event, described it as “sensual” and made “strange comments” on her husband.

Meta said he investigated Wynn-Williams’ harassment allegations and found them “deceptive and unfounded”.

Facebook’s current and former employees have also criticized Wynn-Williams Memoirs. Ex-staff Mike Rognlien said He “sat next to Sarah for 18 months when we both worked at the New York office” and said that the book “has so many lies, I can’t even start”.

Wynn-Williams discussed An initiate of business Interview conducted before the arbitration decision, characterizing criticism from society and former colleagues as distractions. When asked if the book had been checked for the facts, she said, “I think Meta’s problem is to use it so as not to answer the questions themselves. What I would like is that we do not fall into distraction. »»