Meta Stops Ex-Director From Promoting Critical Memoir

Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: Meta has won an emergency ruling in the US to temporarily stop a former director of Facebook from promoting or further distributing copies of her memoir. The book, Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who used to be the company's global public policy director, includes a series of critical claims about what she witnessed during her seven years working at Facebook.

Facebook's parent company, Meta, says the ruling -- which orders her to stop promotions 'to the extent within her control' -- affirms that 'the false and defamatory book should never have been published.' The UK publisher Macmillan says it is 'committed to upholding freedom of speech' and Ms Wynn-Williams' 'right to tell her story.' [You can also hear Ms Wynn-Williams interviewed in the BBC Radio 4 Media Show on March 12.]

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