Meta just scored a win against a new book written by a former exec
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- Meta won an emergency arbitration decision regarding the book "Careless People."
- The decision, in part, bars Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting the book.
- A Meta spokesperson said the "false and defamatory book should never have been published."
Meta just scored a win against a new memoir written by a former Facebook executive.
"Careless People," which was published Tuesday, was written by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook from 2011 to 2017.
Meta on Wednesday shared an emergency arbitrator's decision that bars the author from promoting the book, which has already generated headlines. The ruling was issued by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, which is the international division of the American Arbitration Association.
The arbitrator also wrote that the decision bars Wynn-Williams from making disparaging comments about Meta or from further publishing the book to the extent she has control over it.
"This ruling affirms that Sarah Wynn Williams' false and defamatory book should never have been published," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider.
At the time of writing, the book was still available for purchase from retailers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Wynn-Williams and the publisher Macmillan did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider outside regular business hours.
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