Meta tries to keep Sarah Wynn-Williams away from being further sold in networked memoirs

Meta won a legal victory against a former employee on Wednesday, who published an explosive, actual memoir, to temporarily promote or further distribute the author as the referee.

Sarah Wynn-Williams published “Unimaginative People: A Warning History of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism”, a book that describes a series of fire allegations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behaviors by senior managers during their term in the company. Meta pursued arbitration and argued that the book was banned as part of a non -theft that she had signed as an employee for global affairs.

During an emergency negotiation on Wednesday, the referee Nicholas Gowen found that Meta had made sufficient reasons to make Ms. Wynn-Williams possibly violated her contract after a legal registration published by Meta. The two parties are now starting a private arbitration process.

In addition to the integration of book campaigns and sales, Ms. Wynn -Williams no longer have to participate or “reinforce” or “reinforce”, according to the submission. She also has to withdraw all earlier derogatory comments “In this respect in your control”.

The submission does not limit the publisher, Flatron Books or his parent company MacMillan, the continued publication of the memoirs, a spokeswoman for MacMillan, and added that the company would continue to advertise the book.

“We are horrified by the tactics of Meta to silence our author by using a non -Dargination clause in a severance payment agreement,” said spokeswoman Marlena Bittner. “The book has undergone a thorough processing and review process, and we are still obliged to publish important books like this.”

Meta vehemently denied the allegations of the book.

The book is a “mixture of outdated and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations of our managers,” said a meta spokesman Andy Stone in a statement. Ms. Wynn-Williams was released because of poor performance, he added, and an investigation found that she “made misleading and unfounded allegations of nuisance”.

A spokesman for Ms. Wynn-Williams, who worked on Facebook from 2011 to 2017, did not comment.

The step to publish arbitration is one of the most vigorous public rejections of the former Meta employee, some of which have been published in the past two decades.

META managers also answered Ms. Wynn-Williams’ claims online and most of them were exaggerated or incorrectly awarded.

It is unclear whether the attempts by Meta to ward off Ms. Wynn-Williams’ book will ultimately be successful. In 2023, the National Labor Relations Board decided that it is illegal for companies to enable severance payments that prohibit the employees of making potentially derogatory statements about former employers, including the discussion of sexual harassment or accusations for sexual assault.

In a META shareholder report in 2022, the company’s board of directors announced that the employees did not “remain silent about harassment or discrimination” and the company “strictly forbids retaliation against a personnel” to comment on these problems.