An emergency arbitrator ruled in an interim award on Wednesday that author Sarah Wynn-Williams must cease promotion of her book CARELESS PEOPLE, her whistleblower account of the culture at Facebook. The arbitrator writes that Meta will suffer “immediate and irreparable loss…in the absence of emergency relief,” according to a copy of the filing posted by the company. In a claim brought against Wynn-Williams and publisher Flatiron Books/Macmillan, Meta argued that the book violated a non-disparagement contract the author signed as part of her severance package after being fired from Facebook in 2017. Wynn-Williams is enjoined from making any “disparaging, critical, […]
