On Wednesday Meta won a legal block on Sarah Wynn-Williams promoting her tell-all memoir, but not on Macmillan publishing it.
It’s no surprise to find Facebook selling ‘anxious teens’ to advertisers or kow-towing to the Chinese Communist Party then allegedly lying about it to Congress.
But Wynn-Williams, former director of public policy, is a witty writer with page-turning brio who makes old stories fresh, details funny and the vision frightening.
The most disturbing scene? Sheryl Sandberg – of Lean In fame – allegedly asking her to “come to bed” on a plane with one bed or manager Joel Kaplan asking where Wynn-Williams was “bleeding from” after the traumatic birth of her child.
An internal Facebook investigation into Wynn-Williams’s experience with Kaplan cleared him of wrongdoing.
Meta called the book “a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives”.
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