Mehta won a legal victory against Sarah Wynn-Williams this week, who recently published Memoir Her time at the company was “The Careless Man: A Warning Power, Greed and Lost Idealism”.
Arbitrator rule According to a court application, Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook (now META) from 2011 to 2017, violated a non-investment agreement she signed when she left the company. The ruling temporarily bans Wynn – Williams promotion – or “ [her] From further publication or distribution, the application for control is until the end of private arbitration.
But, “careless people” can still buy it, which may actually be Benefit from “Streisand Effect”, Among them, attempts to suppress information can only further promote information. As of Sunday afternoon, “The Careless Man” is the third bestseller On all Amazons.
Macmillan, through its branding Flatiron Books, published “The Careless Man”, said in a statement that the arbitrator’s decision “has no impact” on the publisher and that it will “absolutely continue to support and promote” the book.
However, the publisher added, “The strategy of the element shocked the silence. [its] By using non-separation clauses in severance agreements. ”
“To be clear, the arbitrator’s order does not mention claims among the careless,” Macmillan said. “The book went through a thorough editing and review process and we remain committed to publishing such important books.”
What “careless people” offer New York Times critics describe As a “dark and really shocking” look inside Facebook, especially its relationship with China and other governments. Wynn-Williams’ role in Facebook includes serving as the head of global public policy.
“I’ve been there for seven years, and if I had to sum it up in one sentence, I would say it was a hopeful comedy that ended with darkness and regrets,” Wynn-Williams wrote in his memoir.
She added:[M]The OST days, the way policies were formulated on Facebook were not like a chapter enacted from Machiavelli, but more like watching a group of 14-year-olds who were given superpowers and ungodly money as they squirted around the world to figure out what power and bring them. ”
Wynn – Williams Reported complaint With the SEC claim that Facebook was eager to operate in China in 2015, it developed a plan to install a “chief editor” that would be able to review certain content or close Chinese websites on behalf of the country’s ruling party.
In a statement, a meta spokesperson described the “careless person” as “an outdated mix and previously reported about [Meta] False allegations about our executives” and described Wynn-Williams as “an employee eight years ago terminated due to poor performance. ”
“We are not serving in China today,” continued a spokesperson for the Yuan Dynasty. “We were once interested in doing so as part of Facebook’s efforts to connect the world. It was widely reported since ten years ago. We ultimately chose not to explore the ideas we explored, announced by Mark Zuckerberg in 2019.”
“The Careless Man” also narrates the uncomfortable encounter between Meta’s vice president of global public policy, Joel Kaplan, and Wynn-Williams Propose He defyed her during a work activity, describing her as “sultry” and making “strange comments” to her husband.
Meta said it investigated Wynn-Williams’ allegations of harassment and found them “misleading and unfounded.”
Current and former Facebook employees also criticized Wynn Williams’ memoirs. Former accompanist Mike Rognlien explain He “sitted next to Sarah for 18 months, when we were both working in our New York offices” and claimed the book “had a lot of lies in it, and I don’t even know where to start.”
Wynn-Williams discusses Meta in Business Insider Interviews conducted before the arbitration award describe criticism from the company and former colleagues as distracted. Asked if the book had been fact-checked, she said: “I think the question of meta is to use it to answer the question itself. What I like most is that we don’t get distracted.”
