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'Careless People': Meta wins arbitration to halt promotion of tell-all book by ex-employee (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 2 days ago by biteychan@beehaw.org to c/entertainment@beehaw.org
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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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[–] melp@beehaw.org 20 points 2 days ago

Can we promote it for her?

[–] verycoolusername@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Welp, now everyone knows about it.

[–] danglybits23@lemm.ee 22 points 2 days 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 18 points 2 days 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 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] biteychan@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

I can still place a hold on Libby and it looks like you can still buy the book. She just can't promote it. It's all weird. I wanna read this out of spite.