Meta's Effort To Suppress Tell-All Book Made It a Bestseller

Lawmakers worldwide want to talk to the Meta insider whose memoir is a US bestseller – after Zuckerberg took her to court

Meta has issued a court order to stop former senior employee Sarah Wynn-Williams from discussing her memoir – despite its new commitment to ‘free expression’.

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Meta's Effort To Suppress Tell-All Book Made It a Bestseller

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former executive at Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), has been prohibited from publicizing her memoir, which provides an insider’s account of her tenure at the company. But the publicity surrounding Meta’s efforts to block the book have made it a bestseller. What Happened: An independent arbitrator ruled that Wynn-Williams is not allowed to respond to any of the numerous interview requests she has received from journalists …

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee of Meta, denounces in the book Careless People the actions of several leaders of the group, including Mark Zuckerberg.

"Fact-checkers have been too biased politically and have destroyed more confidence than they have created, especially in the United States," said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, earlier this year. "It's time to return to our roots around freedom of expression."Read more]]>

How Meta tried to silence a tell-all book and failed

The social media giant has been growing increasingly intolerant of employee critics and leakers. But its attempts to stop the latest whistleblower are not working.