Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former official who published an explosive, indicative monument, as a referee temporarily banned the author from promoting or distributing copies.
Sarah Wynn-Williams released last week “Careless People: a warning story of power, greed and lost idealism”, a book that describes a series of incendiary allegations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior by senior executives during her term. Meta followed arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under the non -signed contract, was signed as a global clerk.
During an emergency hearing on Wednesday, referee Nicholas Gowen found that Meta had provided several reasons that Ms Wynn-Williams may violate her contract, according to a legal filing published by Meta. The two parties will now begin private arbitration.
In addition to suspending book promotions and sales, Ms Wynn-Williams must avoid participating or “enhancing any further frustrating, critical or other detrimental comments,” according to the deposit. It must also withdraw all previous disgusting comments “to the extent that it is in its control”.
The deposit does not appear to limit the publisher, the Flatiron books or his parent company, Macmillan, from the ongoing publication of the memoirs.
Meta strongly denied allegations in the book.
The book is a “mixture of off -date and reported claims for the company and false charges for our executives,” a Meta spokesman Andy Stone said in a statement. Mrs Wynn-Williams was fired for the cause, she added, and a survey at that time concluded that he “made misleading and unfounded allegations of harassment”.
A Flatiron Books spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comments. A spokesman for Ms Wynn-Williams, who worked on what was then called Facebook from 2011 to 2018, did not comment.
The move to publish arbitration is one of Meta’s most dynamic public denials for a possible monuments of the former employee, many of which have been published in the last two decades.
Meta executives also responded to the internet to Ms. Wynn-Williams’ claims, calling most of them wildly overly or flat.
It is not clear whether Meta’s attempts to return Mrs Wynn-Williams The book will ultimately be successful. In 2023, the National Council of Labor Relations ruled that it is generally illegal for companies to offer withdrawal agreements that prohibit employees from submitting potentially abhorrent statements about former employers, including discussing sexual harassment or sexual harassment.
In a report of shareholders in 2022, the company’s board of directors stated that it did not require employees to “remain silent for harassment or discrimination” and that the company “strictly prohibits retaliation against any staff” to talk about these issues.
And in 2018, Meta said he would no longer force employees to settle the claims of sexual harassment in private arbitration, following a similar attitude by Google at that time.
Sheera Frenkel They contributed reports.
