Meta tries to block the book of the ex-employee alleging fault and harassment

An arbitrator decided in favor of Meta in a case that the company brought against Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former meta-e-employee who wrote a memoir published this week detailing the alleged faults. The publishers of Macmillan and its imprint which published the Memoirs, Flaton Books, were also appointed respondents.

The Memory, entitled Negligent people: a story of power of power, greed and lost idealismDepending details of sexual harassment claims, including by the head of current policy Joel Kaplanwho was his boss, According to NBC News.

In the decision, the referee said that Wynn-Williams must stop making derogatory remarks against Meta and his employees and, as long as she can control, further cease promotion of the book, publish more the book and the additional repetition of previous disparaged remarks. The decision also indicates that it must withdraw derogatory remarks from which they appeared.

However, it is not clear if this referee really has the power to stop the publication of the book or if Wynn-Williams can stop the creation of future versions; When writing these lines, he is currently on sale in stores like Amazon And Barnes & Noble. In the decision, the arbitrator noted that the lawyer representing Macmillian and Flatiron opposed his jurisdiction. Wynn-Williams seems to have signed an arbitration agreement when she left Meta in 2017.

Meta, Macmillan and Flatiron did not immediately respond to requests for comments.

“This decision says that Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Faux and Dehamatory book should never have been published,” said Meta spokesman Andy Stone a declaration. “This urgent legal action was made necessary by Williams, which more than eight years after being dismissed by the company, deliberately hid the existence of its book project and avoided the process of verifying the standard facts of the industry in order to precipitate it in the shelves after waiting eight years.”