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Meta wins case over ex-Facebook policy director Sarah Wynn Williams' memoir (www.rnz.co.nz)
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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Meta supplied a statement to RNZ, in which it called the book "a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives".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".

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[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago

I feel the same way. The book is not going away, I think.