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The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Northern California, claims the tech giant\u2019s private arbitration order barring her from speaking about the company or promoting her bestselling book is invalid. It also argues that the severance agreement she signed when she left Meta, in which she agreed not to disparage the company, was done under duress.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Wynn-Williams\u00a0served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under parent company Meta Platforms Inc., from 2011 until her firing in 2017. \u201cCareless People\u201d alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by CEO\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg\u00a0and other executives. It also describes Zuckerberg\u2019s alleged efforts to win favor with Chinese officials. Meta has countered that Wynn-Williams violated her agreement and wrote a book filled with inaccuracies.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit says Meta is seeking $50,000 in damages for each time Wynn-Williams purportedly violates the non-disparagement agreement, putting her under financial duress. She is asking the court to lift the arbitration order and vacate her severance agreement with the company.<\/p>\n

Meta said in a statement that its \u201cformer employee is trying to use the legal process to sell books, which an arbitrator already ruled broke the agreement she signed with the company when she accepted a large severance payment years ago. Her book is divorced from reality, disparaging and riddled with false claims.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meta, according to the lawsuit, had obtained an emergency gag order that bars Wynn-Williams and her lawyers from criticizing the company or promoting her book. Over the course of more than a year since the book was published, the lawsuit claims, Meta has surveilled her, with company representatives attending her public appearances and photographing her, \u201call to document that at each event, Ms. Wynn-Williams said nothing about Meta or her book.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meta, according to the lawsuit, even took issue with Wynn-Williams attending an arts and literary festival in the U.K. earlier this year, where she sat on a panel but remained silent \u2014 because other panelists were critics of the company.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMeta is pursuing Ms. Wynn-Williams at the expense of free speech and legal constraints not only because she refused to bow to the greed and power of Meta, Mr. Zuckerberg, and other executives, but also to strike fear into the heart of anyone else who dares to consider speaking the truth about Meta\u2019s unlawful and abusive practices in the public interest,\u201d the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n

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