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Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee

185 点作者 j_maffe2 个月前

31 条评论

1vuio0pswjnm72 个月前
The author still managed to give at least one interview before the arbitrator&#x27;s decision.<p>For example,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thefp.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;meet-sarah-wynn-williams-facebooks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thefp.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;meet-sarah-wynn-williams-facebooks</a><p>Meta published a response to the book that only alleges the author&#x27;s claims are &quot;old&quot; and does not suggest they are false.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2025&#x2F;03&#x2F;Sarah-Wynn-Williams-New-Book-Of-Old-News.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2025&#x2F;03&#x2F;Sarah-Wynn-W...</a><p>If the claims are false and defamatory, then why not sue the author for defamation.<p>In the book, the author suggests she was harassed by two famous Facebook managers and then terminated when she complained.<p>Apparently the book is a top seller on Amazon. Perhaps it does not need promotion by the author.<p>The author has also filed a whistleblower complaint at the SEC re: the China issue.<p>As a longtime HN reader I recall that Zuckerberg was a favorite of PG. The &quot;ideal founder&quot; or something like that.
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NickC252 个月前
Well, that settles it - I&#x27;ll have to buy a copy and give it a read.<p>Hey Mark, want people to not read it? How about you go donate a few hundred billion to the country and communities that supported you and your company from day 1, instead of avoiding taxation and building a doomsday bunker in New Zealand.
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bryant2 个月前
In all seriousness (aside from all the comments stating they&#x27;d ordered it. Hey, I just did myself), it&#x27;s interesting seeing Meta go after the employee but seemingly not make much of an effort to go after the publisher.<p>What would they hope to gain going after any of it so late anyway? Surely if their goal is to dissuade others from publishing tell-alls, the resulting publicity from their suits against <i>this one</i> would do the opposite? If they really wanted to stop the book, they should&#x27;ve gone after it early before publication, but it seems like they dropped the ball and are doing more damage to themselves trying to catch up.
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moomin2 个月前
The publisher is rushing a new cover with “The book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.” in huge letters, I imagine.
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xz18r2 个月前
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Streisand_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Streisand_effect</a>
fsociety2 个月前
I worked at Facebook and the amount of ex-FBers, especially OGs, speaking out against them on LinkedIn is staggering. I’ve debated doing a livestream of reading this book from start to finish, perhaps even in one sitting, because of what is happening here.
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neogodless2 个月前
Previous discussion:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43349473">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43349473</a><p><i>Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook</i> (engadget.com)<p>285 points by SanjayMehta 4 days ago | 105 comments
ethagnawl2 个月前
I just ordered it on my Kobo. If not for Zuck&#x27;s tantrum, there&#x27;s almost no chance I would have read it.
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simonsarris2 个月前
It&#x27;s unsurprising that Meta would bring a legal case against someone who used to be their global director for public policy when that person signed a non-disparagement agreement. I also find it hard to think it was <i>that bad</i> if she stayed for seven years, but I don&#x27;t have a strong opinion about the whole thing.<p>This is aside from the story but it&#x27;s weird how obvious it is that a PR company was hired to blitz this book, and there&#x27;s been a drip of stories over the last week playing it up in various outlets with the hope that people will say &quot;well that settles it, I&#x27;ll have to buy the book! That will show Meta!&quot;<p>But its funny and a little bizarre that many comments over the last week say exactly that. It just feels too easy. But they&#x27;re not getting some wily one-up on Meta (buying the book changes nothing, their own opinion is probably long settled), some PR firm is getting its job done.<p>same thing&#x2F;topic from 4 days ago with more people saying &quot;I wasn&#x27;t going to buy the book, but now I am&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43349473">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43349473</a>
cddotdotslash2 个月前
I bought this book immediately after the last post here on HN about it. Good read so far!
JakeStone2 个月前
I should be getting my physical copy on Tuesday. Physical so that Bezos can&#x27;t have it edited or deleted from my Kindle.<p>Good job, Zuck! I didn&#x27;t even know this book existed, and likely wouldn&#x27;t have cared, until you decided to drop the hammer on her.
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6stringmerc2 个月前
A strong chilling effect by going after the author directly - no late night talk shows, podcasts, etc.<p>My plan if I was at Macmillan? Send out the book’s Editor on tour, on the double. At this level, the Editor is well qualified to speak to the contents and integrity of the work.<p>As they’re not bound by this ruling, it can be a useful talking point about the merit of the book - “I wouldn’t be here if Meta wasn’t embarrassed by the truth” has a nice ring to it.
tibbydudeza2 个月前
The Streisand Effect - best marketing plan ever !!!!. The book is already in the Amazon best seller list.
shadowgovt2 个月前
Meanwhile, &quot;Chaos Monkeys&quot; is still in publication and is a pretty open talk on the early days of Facebook.<p>I can&#x27;t escape the notion that either they didn&#x27;t have their earlier employees sign quite so binding agreements or the company had some incentive not to sue that man.
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c162 个月前
Bought this on Spotify. Thanks Zuck for bringing it to my attention.
razodactyl2 个月前
A gag order on a book?
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outcoldman2 个月前
I got the book from Apple Books. Downloaded and backed it up. I do not read books that much, but would love to finish this one.<p>“I was on a private jet with Mark the day he finally understood that Facebook probably did put Donald Trump in the White House, and came to his own dark conclusions from that. But most days, working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli and way more like watching a bunch of fourteen-year-olds who’ve been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money, as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them.”<p>Excerpt From Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
blitzar2 个月前
Free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
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nijuashi2 个月前
This is the best advertisement of the book. I wasn’t even aware of the title until now.
disqard2 个月前
Is this book &quot;Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism&quot; by Sarah Wynn-Williams?<p>If someone can confirm this, then I&#x27;ll make sure to tell everyone to avoid it.
ryukoposting2 个月前
Cool! Buying it on Barnes &amp; Noble now. Hadn&#x27;t heard of it.
ohgr2 个月前
Well I’m certainly going to be reading it now.
Tewboo2 个月前
It&#x27;s no surprise they&#x27;d want to silence that kind of negative PR. The tech industry can be pretty cutthroat.
cjbenedikt2 个月前
Best promotion the book coukd get IMO
modelorona2 个月前
Waiting on The Social Network pt. 2
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Fruitmaniac2 个月前
They just Streisanded themselves.
diego_moita2 个月前
Free speech for me, not for thee.
mupuff12342 个月前
I hope they make a movie out of it.
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abeppu2 个月前
&gt; A Meta spokesperson, Andy Stone, said in a post on Threads: “This ruling affirms that Sarah Wynn Williams’ false and defamatory book should never have been published”.<p>... this doesn&#x27;t seem like an accurate statement and it seems like bad journalism for the Guardian to quote it without clarifying? Stopping the former employee from promoting the book does not on its own make a claim that the contents are false or defamatory.
zombot2 个月前
If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.simplejustice.us&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;11&#x2F;filipovics-dilemma-when-facts-are-against-you&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.simplejustice.us&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;11&#x2F;filipovics-dilemma-...</a>
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wisienkas2 个月前
Was this just &quot;manually&quot; removed from the most trending on Hacker News?
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