OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — A bestselling author sued Meta Thursday, claiming the social media giant enforced unlawful arbitration proceedings against her after she wrote a book about her experiences at Facebook as its director of global public policy.
Sarah Wynn-Williams worked for Facebook from 2011 until her firing in 2017, which she claims was in retaliation for reporting her boss, Facebook vice president for public policy Joel Kaplan, for sexual harassment. Kaplan is currently the chief global affairs officer at Meta Platforms.
In her 2025 bestselling memoir “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” she details her termination along with other revelations about Facebook that she called “lethal carelessness.”
In Wynn-Williams’ complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, she says Meta is punishing her for disclosing its “illegal and indefensible workplace conditions and corporate misconduct to federal regulators, to Congress” and in her memoir. She also claims, after her termination, Meta refused to pay back business expenses of approximately $310,000, based on a severance agreement.
“Meta does not and cannot deny the truth,” she says. “Rather than focus on rectifying the issues they raise, Meta has attempted to distract and retaliate, including by launching an unlawful arbitration enforcement action against Ms. Wynn-Williams seeking untold millions of dollars Ms. Wynn-Williams does not have in purported...
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