Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta

A former Meta executive who wrote an explosive exposé making allegations about the social media company’s dealings with China and its treatment of teenagers is said to be “on the verge of bankruptcy” after publishing the book.

An MP has claimed in parliament that Mark Zuckerberg’s company was trying to “silence and punish” Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, after her decision to speak out about her time at the company.

Louise Haigh, the former Labour transport secretary, said Wynn-Williams was facing a fine of $50,000 (£37,000) every time she breached an order secured by Meta preventing her from talking disparagingly about the company.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    1 day ago

    How incredibly frustrating it must be to lose everything you own because you still have something like a conscience and inform the public about the sinister dealings of a corporation, but users still act as if nothing happened—and surely for the hundredth time.

    Fuck all those conformist assholes who are too comfortable or too vain to leave this platform—they know full well who they’re supporting with their goddamn selfies, mindless reels, and all that stupid shit.

    All the corruption and the monopolies are only possible because consumers are so incredibly ignorant, so dull-witted and lazy.

    I’m slowly but surely losing all faith in humanity.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    1 day ago

    [Meta] has said she was fired for “poor performance and toxic behaviour”

    I read this as:

    • ‘toxic behavior’ = she complained to HR about there being a hostile environment, which hurt the corporation’s feelings.
    • ‘poor performance’ = she didn’t meet the impossible performance goals they gave her in retaliation for her complaining about the abuse she was suffering.

    Fuck Meta and fuck Zuckerberg. The sooner they both disappear into irrelevance the better.

  • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    It’s actually a really, really good book, I listened to the audiobook and was very impressed with it.

    I feel kind of bad for pirating it now that she’s being sued to bankruptcy.