Meta blocks the former employee of the promotion of scathing memories of “reckless people”

Meta obtained an emergency decision blocking the reporters and the former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams to promote her memoirs Negligent people: a story of power of power, greed and lost idealism. In other news, Have you seen Barbra Streisand’s house?

THE International Center for Disputes Resolution (ICDR) On Wednesday, the decision of emergency arbitration, concluding that Meta was likely to succeed in his case against Wynn-Williams for breach of contract. More specifically, Meta alleys that Wynn-Williams violated the non-negotiation agreement that she signed as an employee.

“The emergency referee notes that, after having examined the memories and hearing the oral argument, [Meta] has established a probability of success on the bottom of his contractual request for a non-negotiation against the respondent Wynn-Williams, and this immediate and irreparable loss will lead to the lack of emergency aid “,” The referee wrote in his decision.

As such, the ICDR has judged that Wynn-Williams is temporarily prohibited to promote Reckless Or by distributing more audio and electronic versions of it. It is also temporarily prohibited to make “denigrated, criticism or otherwise detrimental comments” on Meta, and was responsible for withdrawing such comments that she has already made.

This does not mean that Wynn-Williams’ claims Reckless are false, nor that they are true. This simply means that the ICDR considers that it is likely that it has violated its contract by sharing them.

Wynn-Williams was previously director of Meta’s global public policy, with Reckless Covering your time to the company from 2011 to 2017. The dissertation portrays a very inexpensive image of the technology giant, including allegations of sexual harassment and affirms that Facebook has ignored internal concerns concerning its impact on democracy and human rights.

In his review of the bookThe New York Times called Reckless An “initiate story of a company which, according to her, was managed by managers eager for status and self-absorbed … Even if Facebook has become a vector for disinformation campaigns and cozé with authoritarian regimes.”

This week, it was reported that Wynn-Williams also filed a complaint for denunciation At the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in April, alleging that Facebook (now Meta) misleaded investors about his efforts to enter China. According to the complaint, in 2015, Facebook developed a censorship system intended to be used by the Chinese government in order to enter the Chinese market.

Meta finally dismissed Wynn-Williams in 2017, which She claims to be reprisals for her complaints of sexual harassment. Meta maintains that he dismissed Wynn-Williams for “poor performance and toxic behavior” and that even if he had been interested in operating in China, they end up with did not come to any with the country’s government. However, this does not mean that Meta has not tried.

“”[Careless People] is a mixture of obsolete complaints and previously reported the company and false accusations concerning our leaders, “Meta said in a statement shared with several publications.

Mashable contacted Meta to comment.

Negligent people: a story of power of power, greed and lost idealism was published this week by Macmillan.