Meta won a first victory in her attempt to stop a surprise thesis of a former political framework. A referee With the social media company, saying that the author of the book should stop selling and publicizing the book, which was put up for sale earlier this week.
The drama stems from RecklessA new book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook politician who, according to Meta, was dismissed in 2017. Described by his publisher as an “explosive initiate account”, Wynn-Williams reveals some about the push of Mark Zuckerberg to bring Facebook to China a decade ago. She too that Joel Kaplan of Meta acted inappropriately and reveals About the clumsy meetings of Zuckerberg with world leaders
The book was only announced last week, and Meta carried out an energetic public relations campaign against him, A “new book of old news”. Many former employees have The report of the events of Wynn-Williams which happened while she was working on Facebook.
Meta also filed an emergency request to an arbitrator to try to block the book, arguing that Wynn-Williams had violated a non-debt agreement with the company. In a decision, the referee said that she should immediately stop making disparaging comments on Meta and stopping “publishing or distributing” the book. We do not know exactly what it means for the book, which is already on sale. The publisher, Flaton Book, who was also appointed in Meta’s complaint, did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
“This decision claims that the book False and Dehantatory by Sarah Wynn Williams should have been published,” said Meta spokesman Andy Stone . “This urgent legal action was made necessary by Williams, which more than eight years after being dismissed by the company, deliberately hid the existence of its book project and avoided the process of verifying the standard facts of the industry in order to precipitate it in the shelves after waiting eight years.”
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