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Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book

Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.

Meta—the company that promotes itself as an avatar of free speech—has successfully convinced an arbitrator to silence author Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was a director in charge of connecting Meta’s executives with global leaders. They characterize her firing as the result of “poor performance and toxic behavior.” They call her “a disgruntled activist trying to sell books.” Meanwhile on social media, current and former employees posted comments defending the maligned executives. Wynn-Williams says that Sheryl Sandberg pressured her to share a bed mid-air, that Meta’s chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan called her “sultry” and grinded against her while dad-dancing at a corporate retreat.

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