“Working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli and way more like watching a bunch of 14-year-olds who’ve been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money, as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them,” she wrote in the first chapter of the book.

A Meta spokesperson told KQED that Wynn-Williams signed a binding arbitration agreement, which explicitly prohibited her from promoting her book.

Shortly thereafter, in a post on the social media platform X, Meta Vice President of Communications Andy Stone wrote, “This ruling affirms that Sarah Wynn Williams’ false and defamatory book should never have been published.”

When Wynn-Williams left the company in 2017, she signed a severance agreement that included a non-disparagement clause — which Meta is now enforcing — and received an undisclosed severance payment in exchange. She was also paid an advance of more than $500,000 for the book, according to New York Magazine’s Vulture.

Meta secured an emergency legal order on the eve of the book’s publication, preventing Wynn-Williams from publicly promoting it. She faces fines of $50,000 each time she breaches the order.

The emergency arbitrator whom Meta appealed to ahead of the Hay Festival found that Meta had “established a likelihood of success on the merits of its contractual non-disparagement claim.” Meta’s motion argued that she violates that order “any time she appears in public in a place where she...

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