Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over efforts to keep her quiet
For more than a year, the legal action in the Sarah Wynn-Williams affair ran one way: Meta against its former executive. That has now reversed.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of the Meta memoir Careless People, is suing the company over its efforts to silence her, according to The Wall Street Journal. The woman Meta spent a year trying to keep quiet is now the one filing.
The backdrop is a gag order that has become a story in itself. On the day Careless People was published in March 2025, Meta filed an arbitration demand arguing that the book breached a non-disparagement agreement Wynn-Williams signed when she left the company.
An emergency arbitrator agreed, temporarily ordering her to stop promoting the book and to make no “disparaging, critical or otherwise detrimental” comments about Meta. The order came with teeth: fines of up to $50,000 each time she breached...
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