Meta won a legal victory against Sarah van Williams this week, a former employee who recently published a Memory “Careful people: Story of Power, Laughing, and Lost Idealism Caution Story” at the company titled its time.
An arbitrator Governance The company has made an accurate argument that from 2011 to 2017, Van Williams, who works in Facebook (now Meta), may have violated the unveiled agreement signed when leaving the company. The ruler states that van Williams is forbidden to temporarily promote-or to this extent [her] With control, further publication or distribution ” – its book ends until private mediation.
However, “careless people” are available for shopping, and in fact it may happen To take advantage of the “Streashend Effect” In which the attempt to suppress the information only helps to advertise it. By Sunday afternoon, there was “careless people” Number three sellers on Amazon.
Mac Millen, who published “careless people” through his improper flatter books, said in a statement that the arbitrator’s decision has no effect on the publisher and will continue to “support and promote and promote the book.”
The publisher added that it is “quietly disturbed by Meta’s tactics [its] Image.
“Clearly, the order of the mediator does not give any references to the claims within the careless people,” said McMilin. “The book had to go through the process of complete editing and examination, and we are determined to publish important books like this.”
What do “careless people” offer A reviewer of the New York Times described As a “darker ridiculous and genuine shocking” is visible inside Facebook – especially its relationship with China and other governments. (The role of Wen Williams in Facebook includes serving as the Director of the World Public Policy.)
“I was there for seven years, and if I had to summarize it in a sentence, I would say that it started as a hopeful humor and ended in darkness and regret.”
He added, “[M]On the day of OST, working on a policy on Facebook was as low as imposing a chapter from Machiaville and looking at children under the age of fourteen who have been given superpower and unconscious money, because they have to know which electricity has purchased and brought them.
Van Williams also According to reports a whistleblower complaint filed The US Securities and Exchange Commission has been alleged that, in a fool to work in China, Facebook plans to install a “chief editor” in 2015, which was able to censor some content in China or close the site in China.
In a statement, a Meta spokesperson described “careless people” as a mixture of claims reported beyond and before. [Meta] And false accusations about our executives, “and the described van Williams” is an employee of poor performance eight years ago. “
“We do not perform our services in China today,” a meta spokesperson added. “It is no secret that we were once interested in doing so as part of Facebook’s efforts to connect the world. A decade ago it began widely. We did not finally choose to go through the ideas we had discovered, which Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2019.
“Careless people” Joel Kapillen, who now mentions uncomfortable competitions between Meta’s World Public Policy, and Van Williams, who Claim He raised himself against him in a work program, described him as “sarcastic” and made “strange comments” about his husband.
Meta said he investigated the allegations of harassment of Van Williams and found them “misleading and baseless”.
As far as the company is just trying to silence the criticism of a whistleblower, the spokesman said, “City Bloor’s position protects communication from the government, not trying to sell books to angry workers.”
Former current and former Facebook employees have also criticized Van Williams’ memories. Former staff Mike Roganlin Said He was sitting near Sarah for 18 months when we both worked in the New York office “and claimed that” there are many lies. I do not even know where to start. “
Wayne Williams discussed this in Pushback of Meta A business internal The interview was interviewed before the arbitration decision, in which criticisms of the company and former fellow workers were disrupted. Asked if the book was checked, he said, “I think the Meta problem is using it to not answer the questions itself. What I would like is not to be disturbed for us.”