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Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee’s scathing memoir (www.nytimes.com)

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Sarah Wynn-Williams last week released “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” a book that describes a series of incendiary allegations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior by senior executives during her tenure at the company. Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a nondisparagement contract she signed as a global affairs employee.

haha Streisand effect go brrrr

bookshop.org sells it in both hardcover and e-book

or from Bez-Mart, if you're into that sort of thing

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

The book is a “mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives,” a Meta spokesman, Andy Stone, said in a statement.

Asshole implying misdeeds can only be reported on once, and they must be recent, otherwise they just don't count? Fuck off...