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'Careless People': Meta wins arbitration to halt promotion of tell-all book by ex-employee (www.usatoday.com)
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(Books count as Entertainment, right? If Zuckerberg has no haters, I am dead. Currently waiting in line for this book on Libby as I type this)

Meta Platforms META.O on Wednesday won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book "Careless People" by a former employee, according to a copy of the ruling published by the social media company.

The book by Meta's former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, was called by the New York Times book review "an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world," and its leading executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan.

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[–] verycoolusername@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Welp, now everyone knows about it.

[–] melp@beehaw.org 10 points 8 hours ago

Can we promote it for her?

[–] danglybits23@lemm.ee 12 points 10 hours ago

So she can't promote the book because it will cause "immediate and irrepairable loss", but this ruling had nothing to do with the publisher and the book is still available for sale (or download) everywhere.

I wouldn't have read this without the publicity about this case, so if this wasn't a shady attempt to force a Streisand-effect for a sales boost then I hope it creates one and everyone reads it just because they don't want us to!

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago

I hadn’t even heard this was being written or published. But thanks to Meta’s lawyers, now I have and I ordered a copy.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 10 hours ago

Halt promotion, does that mean that we can still get it?