Meta takes aim at ex-employee’s memoir ‘Careless People’

Meta won legal victory this week against Sarah Win-Wyliam, a former employee who recently released Reminiscence In his company’s time titled “Buckle People: Power, greed and lost idealism”.

An arbitration Ruled The company has made a valid argument that the Win-Wyliams, which has been working on Facebook (now Meta) from 20 to 25 2017, has violated the non-discriminatory agreement signed when leaving the company. The verdict has stated that Win-Win -liams is temporarily banned from preaching-or, ”as much as it is [her] From control, further publishing or distribution ” – her book until the personal arbitration is over.

However, “inadvertent people” are available for purchase and can be reality Being benefited from “Strikend Effect” In which the attempts to suppress the information can only promote it. Till Sunday afternoon, was “inadvertent people” Bestseling Book of Number Three in AmazonThe

McMillan, who published “inadvertent people” through his impression flatteron book, said in a statement that “no effect on the publisher of the arbitration’s decision” and it “will continue to support and promote the book.”

The publisher added that it was “shocked to see Meta’s techniques for silence [its] The author through the use of a non-discriminatory clause in an isolated agreement. “

“Clearly, the arbitration’s order does not mention the claim among those who are inadvertent,” McMillan said. “The book has passed through a complete editing and test -study process and we are committed to publishing important books like this.”

“Inadvertent people” offer what A reviewer of the New York Times describes The relationship with “the fun and really tragic in the dark” inside Facebook – especially with China and other governments. (The roles of Win-Wyliams on Facebook include serving as the director of the Global Public Policy.)

“I was there for seven years, and if I had to add it to a sentence I would say that it started as an optimistic trick and ended in the dark and regret,” Win-Wiliams wrote in memoirs.

He added, “[M]OST Day, Facebook, was less than a chapter from Machiavelli working on Facebook, and fourteen -year -old children had a way of seeing a bunch of supremacy and an unreasonable amount of money, because the world jets around the world to determine what they bought and brought. “

Win-Wyliams too Reported in the news The US Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Facebook had created a plan to install a “Chief Editor” in China, with interest in being operated in China, who was able to censor some contents for the country’s ruling party or shut down the site in China.

In a statement, Meta describes as a mixture of the claims that is out and previously reported as a spokesperson “inadvertent man” “” [Meta] And false accusations of our executives, “and described Win-Win -liams” an employee finished eight years ago for bad performances “and described.

“We do not operate our services in China today,” the meta spokesman also said. “This is not a secret that we were interested in doing this as part of Facebook’s efforts to connect the world. It was widely reported from the beginning a decade ago. We have finally decided not to pass through the ideas we have searched, which Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2019. “

“Gapless Man” Joel Kaplan now describes the uncomfortable encounters between the Vice President of the Global Public Policy of Meta and Win-Wyliamus, who Claim He stood against him at a job event, described him as “abusive” and made “strange comments” about her husband.

Meta has reported that they have investigated the harassment of Win-Wiliam and got them “misleading and baseless.”

The agency is just trying to mute a whistle blower, a spokesman said, “Whisel blower status maintains communication with the government, not dissatisfied workers trying to sell books.”

Current and former Facebook employees have also criticized Win-Wiliam’s memoir. Ex -employee Mike Ragnolian D He was “Sarah sitting next to Sara for 6 months when we both worked in the New York office” and claimed the book “There are so many lies that I didn’t even know where to start.”

Win-Wyliams discussed Meta’s Pushback In A business insider The interview operated before the arbitration verdict identifies criticism as a confusion from the agency and former colleagues. Asked about whether the book was true-cheek, he said, “I think Meta’s problem is using it not to answer the question itself. What I like to like is not to fall into the confusion for us ”