‘Careless People’ hits the top of the New York Times bestseller list<p>It looks like Meta’s campaign to bury a dishy, tell-all memoir from a former employee isn’t exactly working. In fact, it seems that the company’s legal maneuvers to block the book have had the exact opposite intended effect.</p>
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Careless People has debuted at <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
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number one[/url] on the
New York Times bestseller list. It’s also spent much of the week in the number three position on Amazon’s <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
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bestseller list[/url]. That’s despite the fact that Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former policy director at Facebook, has been <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-is-trying-to-stop-a-former-employee-from-promoting-her-book-about-facebook-004938899.html">
barred[/url] from promoting or publicly discussing the book following legal action by Meta.</p>
<span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>The memoir details much of the inner workings of Facebook during the nearly seven years Wynn-Williams worked there. It reveals <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/whistleblower-complaint-expands-on-claims-that-facebook-once-built-a-censorship-tool-to-win-over-china-215047102.html">
new details[/url] about the company’s relentless ambition to bring the social network to China, as well as numerous <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-wildest-details-in-the-facebook-memoir-meta-is-trying-to-bury-183310491.html">
shocking stories[/url] about how Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and other executives behaved behind closed doors. (In addition to her revelations in
Careless People, Wynn-Williams has also filed <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-alleges-harassment-sandberg-kaplan-sarah-wynn-williams-rcna195130">
a whistleblower complaint[/url] with the Securities and Exchange Committee. That complaint has not been made public, but according to
NBC News, she alleges that Facebook “misled” investors.)</p>
<p>Meta has come out forcefully against Wynn-Williams and the book, describing it in a statement as “a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives.” The company says Wynn-Williams was fired in 2017 “for poor performance and toxic behavior.”</p>
<p>Meta initiated arbitration proceedings against Wynn-Williams last week, resulting in a decision that for now prevents her from publicly discussing or promoting the work. But, as the bestseller lists show, the move has done little to kill interest in the work.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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‘Careless People’ hits the top of the New York Times bestseller list
