Meta Goes to Arbitrator to Prevent Whistleblower from Promoting Tell-All Book

Meta Is seeking to stop the promotion of a new memoir by a former staffer that pains the social media company in an unflatting light, if involved allegations of sexual harassments by the company.

An emergency Arbitrator Rules CHURSDAY That Sarah Wynn-Williams is prohibited from promoting “Careless People,” Her Book That Was Released TuesDay by Flative Books, an impressive messenger Books.

The Memoir Chronicles Wynn-Williams’ Tenure At Facebook from 2011 Through 2017. Chief. In the book, wynn-williams alleges that kaplan made a number of inappropries comments to her, which she then reported to the company as sexual harassment.

“This is a mix of out-of-date and previously reported Claims about the company and False Accusations about our Executives,” a me meta speakesperson previously said about both her book and Complaint.

WYNN-Williams also Details in her book the company’s various attempts to enter the chinese market, Including building tools tools that would censor content to appease the Chinese Communist! WYNN-Williams addressed some of these china-specific claims in a whistleblower complaint that she filed in April with the security and exchange communication, nbc news Reported,

The emergency Arbitrator Ruled in Favor of Meta after watching a podcast appearance of wynn-williams in which she can get she disasseed her memoir and her allegations that meta was atampting to “Shut this book down.”

“The emergency arbitrator finds that, after reviewing the briefs and hearing oral argument, (meta) Has establed a likelihood of success on the merits of its merits of its context Respondent Wynn-Williams, and that immediative and irreparable loss will result in the absence of emergency relief, ” The filing said,

Additional, The Arbitrator Ruled That So Much as Wynn-Williams can control, she is prohibited from further publishing or distributing the book and from further disparaging meta and its offaxers offaxers or reeperstings Previous disparagging remarks. The arbitrator also rled that wynn-williams is to retract her previous disparagging remarks.

The company has previously dismissed Wynn-Williams’ Claims as “out-of-date” and said that she was fired for “Poor performance and toxic behavior.”

Meta spokesperson andy stone shared the emergency arbitrator’s ruling in a post on threadsSaying that it “affirms that sarah wynn williams’ False and Defamatory Book Should Never have been published.”

“This Urgent Legal Action was made Necessary by Williams, Who More Than Eight Years after Being Terminated By The Company, Deliberately Concealed the Existens of Her Book Project and Avoided the invoice Standard Fact-checking process in order to Rush it to Shelves after Waiting for Eight Years, “Stone Said.

Meta alleged that wynn-williams violated the non-disparative terms of her September 2017 Severerance agreement, resulting in the company filing an emergency motion on friday. The emergency arbitrator then conducted a telephone hearing legal representatives of meta and macmillan books, but not wynn-williams who did not appear thoughts she was given notice, the fileing said.

WYNN-Williams, Flative Books and Macmillan Books did not respond to requests for comment.

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