Social media giant Meta is attempting to lessen the impact of a tell-all memoir by its former director of global public policy Sarah Wynn-Williams, titled Careless People, which the company alleges is “defamatory”.
Meta won an emergency arbitration ruling in the United States on Wednesday, where an absent Wynn-Williams was ordered to temporarily stop personally promoting or further distributing copies of her book.
The ruling did not prevent the publisher of Careless People, Flatiron Books, or its parent company Macmillan from distributing or promoting the memoir.
Wynn-Williams, who is also a former New Zealand diplomat, released Careless People last week with little prior publicity after working for Meta (formerly Facebook) between 2011 and 2017.
She has filed a whistleblower complaint with US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging Meta misled investors, and has also made allegations of harassment, including claims of inappropriate comments by former colleague Joel Kaplan, who is now Meta's chief global affairs officer.
Meta has denied the allegations.
Andy Stone, a communications director at Meta, wrote on social media that the arbitration ruling, now shared on Meta’s website, “affirms that Sarah Wynn-Williams’ false and defamatory book should never have been published”.
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