How ‘Careless People’ is becoming a bigger problem for Meta
Meta has aggressively pushed to discredit and silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, her memoir about working at the company as a policy director. Now, sheas fighting back.
Attorneys for Wynn-Williams this week filed an emergency motion seeking to dismiss the gag order that Meta won via an arbitrator. A copy of her motion, which Iave seen, argues that the nondisparagement agreement she signed when she left the company isnat enforceable, while Meta has used it as the legal basis for banning her from talking about the book.
Naturally, the Streisand effect is on full display. Careless People debuted at the top of The New York Times Best Seller list. Itas now also of interest to multiple governments.
aMembers of the United States Congress, the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and the Parliament of the European Union have requested to speak with Ms. Wynn-Williams on the issues of public concern raised in her memoir,a her motion to lift the gag order reads. aThese include Metaas coordination with the Chinese Communist Party, its exploitation of emotionally vulnerable teenage girls, and its conduct in this very arbitration.a
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