Meta is making an attempt to cease a former worker...

Meta has notched an early victory in its try to halt a shock tell-all memoir from a former coverage government . An arbitrator with the social media firm, saying that the e book’s creator ought to cease promoting and publicizing the e book, which went on sale earlier this week.

The drama stems from Careless Folks, a brand new e book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former coverage official at Fb who Meta says was fired in 2017. Described by its writer as an “explosive insider account,” Wynn-Williams reveals some about Mark Zuckerberg’s push to convey Fb to China a decade in the past. She additionally that Meta’s Joel Kaplan, acted inappropriately, and divulges about Zuckerberg’s awkward encounters with world leaders

The e book was solely introduced final week, and Meta has waged a forceful PR marketing campaign in opposition to it, a “new e book of outdated information.” Quite a few former staff have Wynn-Williams’ account of occasions that transpired whereas she labored at Fb.

Meta additionally filed an emergency movement with an arbitrator in an try to dam the e book, arguing that Wynn-Williams had violated a non-disparagement settlement with the corporate. In a choice, the arbitrator stated that she ought to instantly cease making disparaging feedback about Meta and cease “additional publishing or distributing” the e book. It’s unclear what precisely this implies for the e book, which is already on sale. The writer, Flatiron Books, which was additionally named in Meta’s criticism, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

“This ruling affirms that Sarah Wynn Williams’ false and defamatory e book ought to by no means have been printed,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone stated in . “This pressing authorized motion was made essential by Williams, who greater than eight years after being terminated by the corporate, intentionally hid the existence of her e book mission and averted the trade’s customary fact-checking course of so as to rush it to cabinets after ready for eight years.”