Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published a book of explosive memories, Tell-ALS, since a referee has temporarily forbidden the author to promote or further distribute copies.
Sarah Wynn-Williams last week published “People Scratise: you feel of power, greed and lost idealism”, a book that describes a series of incendiary accusations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behaviors by senior managers during his mandate at the company. Meta pursued the arbitration, claiming that the book is prohibited on the basis of a non -dispute contract that has signed as a global affairs employee.
During an emergency hearing on Wednesday, the referee, Nicholas Gowen, discovered that Meta had provided enough reasons that Mrs. Wynn-Williams had potentially violated her contract, according to a legal storage published by Meta. The two parts will now begin private arbitration.
In addition to stopping the promotions and sales of books, Mrs. Wynn-Williams must refrain from involving or “amplify any further denigration, critical or otherwise harmful comments”, according to the deposit. He must also withdraw all the previous denigration comments “to the extent of his control”.
The deposit does not limit the publisher, Flatron Books or his mother -in -law, Macmillan, from the continuous publication of The Memoir, said a Macmillan spokesman, adding that the company will continue to promote the book.
“We are upset by the tactics of Meta to silence our author through the use of a non -disposition clause in a severance indemnity,” said spokesperson, Marlena Bittner. “The book has gone through an accurate assembly and verification process and we are committed to publishing important books like this.”
Meta has vehemently denied the accusations in the book.
The book is a “mix of obsolete statements and previously reported on the company and false accusations on our managers”, said a spokesperson for the goal, Andy Stone, in a note. Mrs. Wynn-Williams was fired for scarce performance, he added, and an investigation at the time established that “he made misleading and unfounded accusations of harassment”.
A spokesman for Mrs. Wynn-Williams, who worked on what had been called Facebook from 2011 to 2017, did not comment.
The move to publish the arbitration deposit is one of the strongest public repudents of Meta del Book of Memoirs Tell-All by an ex employee, many of whom have been published in the last two decades.
The leaders of the leaders also responded online to the statements of Mrs. Wynn-Williams, defining most of them wildly exaggerated or false.
It is not clear whether the attempts of a destination to support Mrs. Wynn-Williams’ book will have finally successful. In 2023, the National Labor Relations Board established that it is generally illegal for companies to offer dismissal agreements that prohibit workers to make potentially denigrable statements on former employers, including the discussion of sexual harassment or accusations of sexual aggression.
In a 2022 shareholder report, the company’s board of directors claimed that it did not require employees “to keep silent about harassment or discrimination” and that the company “rigorously prohibits retaliation against any staff” for having talked about these issues.