Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating

Wynn-Williams did not speak—could not speak—because of an interim ruling by an arbitrator that prevented her from promoting or even mentioning her best-selling book about her time at Meta, where she worked as a director of global public policy. In 2017, the company fired her, and with her lawyers she negotiated an agreement where the company would pay her $780,000. The agreement stipulated that she would refrain from making any “disparaging, critical or otherwise detrimental comments” about Meta. In March 2025, Meta found out that Wynn-Williams was about to publish a memoir, Careless People, which was basically a 400-page disparaging comment. Meta immediately called for an emergency arbitration, and the interim ruling was that Wynn-Williams could not promote her book in any way. That ruling is still in effect, with a more sweeping arbitration hearing scheduled for October.