Last Wednesday, Meta successfully obtained a ruling blocking whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her memoir Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. Today, the book is third on Amazon's Best Sellers list. Who could have seen this coming?

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Released on March 11, Careless People recounts Wynn-Williams' experiences working at Meta (previously Facebook) from 2011 to 2017. The New York Times called the memoir an "insider account of a company that she says was run by status-hungry and self-absorbed leaders… even as Facebook became a vector for disinformation campaigns and cozied up to authoritarian regimes."

Of course, Meta has vehemently disagreed with Wynn-Williams' assessment, labelling Careless People "a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives."

Apparently hoping to reduce Careless People's spread, Meta accused Wynn-Williams of violating her employee non-disparagement agreement, taking her to arbitration. As a result, an arbitrator has temporarily banned Wynn-Williams from promoting Careless People or personally distributing it.

Yet it is a truth universally acknowledged that if you tell people not to look at a thing, they are most definitely going to look at the thing. It has played out time and time again, from Orpheus looking at Eurydice in Greek mythology, to...

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