Ex-Meta policy chief fights bid to silence memoir publicity

A former Meta director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, filed a California lawsuit accusing Meta of illegally trying to suppress publicity around her memoir Careless People through an interim arbitration ruling and non-disparagement clauses, arguing the move violates the First Amendment and was coerced under financial duress. Meta counters that Wynn-Williams is attempting to monetize the book and that the arbitration order related to a severance agreement she signed years ago; the case also highlights Meta’s alleged surveillance of her public appearances.