Legal Fight by Meta Against ‘Careless People’ Memoir Goes Viral

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee of Meta, has been sued for her memoir Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, which offers a critical assessment of the business. Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook (now Meta) from 2011 to 2017, asserts that the company's power and greed led to a decline in her idealism. Recently, an arbitrator decided that Meta had a good argument that Wynn-Williams might have broken her non-disparagement agreement, and she temporarily stopped the book's advertising pending more arbitration. Notwithstanding the legal opposition, Careless People is still for sale and has profited from the extra publicity by rising to the top of Amazon's bestseller list. The book provides an intimate look at Facebook's business practices, especially its interactions with China and other superpowers. People describe it as "darkly funny and genuinely shocking." According to Wynn-Williams, who talks about her experiences, Facebook's operations were like a "bunch of fourteen-year-olds" with money and power attempting to figure out their position in the world.

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