Meta has won an emergency ruling in the US to temporarily stop a former director of Facebook, New Zealander Sarah Wynn Williams, from promoting or further distributing copies of her book.
Her publisher, Pan Macmillan, said in a statement the book was first person narrative account of what the author herself witnessed during her seven years at the company.
Meta supplied a statement to RNZ, in which it called the book “a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives”.
It said Wynn-Williams ceased working at the company eight years ago, and an investigation at the time found she had made “misleading and unfounded allegations of harassment”.
For those interested it is available in a few places.
Also for those that sail, it is available I am informed on the high seas.
I am definitely going to read it now. Streisand effect.
It’s for sale outside the USA which is ironic given all the lip service that shithole country gives to free speech.
Meta took a case to the American Arbitration Association, a neutral third party which resolves disputes out of court.
How would that be binding?
My guess is that she signed a contract with Meta that prevented her saying bad things about them, and the contract said that disputes would be handled by an arbitrator of Meta’s choice.
Looks like you are right, that arbitrator was part of her severance package. So she is bound by it but her publisher is not.
Here’s a review of the book.
Thanks for the links. I read through both, I think I will read this book when I get a chance. I already dislike facebook so much that it will be hard to drop any lower on the scale, but it’s good to reinforce why.
I feel the same way. The book is not going away, I think.
