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Meta He is seeking to stop promoting a new memory by a former person who paints the social media company in unclear light, including claims of sexual harassment by the company’s policy chief.
An Emergency Arbitrator decided on Thursday that Sarah Wynn-Williams is forbidden to promote “Careless People”, her book published Tuesday by Flation Books, a trace of publisher Macmillan Books.
Memoir The Wynn-Williams chronicles of Facebook from 2011 to 2017. During that time, she became a high-level employee who interacts with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, then Sheryl Sandberg and Joel Kaplan, the current chief of company policy. In the book, Wynn-Williams claims that Kaplan made her a number of inappropriate comments, which she then reported to the company as sexual harassment.
“This is a mixture of old and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations of our leaders,” a short -sighted spokesman for her book and the complaint.
Wynn-Williams also details in her book the various efforts of the company to enter the Chinese market, including construction tools that would censor the content to calm the Chinese Communist Party. Wynn-Williams addressed some of these specific claims of China in a complaint about the whistles she filed in April to the Insurance and Exchange Commission, NBC News reported.
The emergency referee decided in favor of Meta after watching a Podcast appearance of Wynn-Williams in which she discussed her memory and her claims that Meta was trying to “shut down this book”.
“The arbitrator of the emergency finds that, after revising the cuts and hearing the oral argument, (Meta) has created a chance of success in the merits of his non-Instead contract against the respondent Wynn-Williams, and that immediate and irreparable loss will result in the lack of facilitation of emergency,” the appearance said.
Moreover, the referee decided that so much that Wynn-Williams can control, it is forbidden to publish or further distribute the book and from further divisive meta and its officers or repetition of previous divisive remarks. The arbitrator also decided that Wynn-Williams will attract its previous divisive remarks.
The company has previously rejected Wynn-Williams’ claims as “outdated” and said it was fired for “poor performance and toxic behavior”.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone shared the emergency arbitrator’s decision in a post on themes, saying “claims that the fake and slanderer’s book by Sarah Wynn Williams should have never been published.”
“This urgent legal action was made indispensable by Williams, who more than eight years after being interrupted by the company, deliberately hid the existence of its book project and avoided the standard process of controlling industry facts in order to rush to the shelves after waiting for eight years,” Stone said.
Meta claimed that Wynn-Williams violated the terms of the non-mention of its agreement on September 2017, resulting in the company to submit an emergency motion on Friday. The emergency referee then conducted a telephone session that includes legal representatives of Meta and Macmillan books, but not Wynn-Williams that did not appear even though it was given the announcement, the appearance said.
Wynn-Williams, Flation Books and Macmillan Books did not respond to comment requests.
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