Memorie’s book Mark Zuckerberg tried to prevent you from reading

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Therefore, no surprise that destination has tried to block sales of Negligent peopleBringing Wynn-Williams to an arbitration court to say that the book was violating the legal agreements. He did not participate in an audition on 11 March.

Meta won temporary orders against Wynn-Williams by default, preventing them from promoting or distributing personally Negligent people. This did not prevent Macmillan publisher from selling the book, although he made the unusual move not to distribute early copies in Australia for the revision – and infuriate destination.

“Pan Macmillan Australia and New Zealand are engaged in Sarah’s right to tell her story and the publication of Negligent peopleHe said a spokesman for the publisher.

In the meantime, Meta has unfolded the staff of public relations to make a campaign against Negligent people During registration and behind the scenes.

“Sarah Wynn Williams’ false and defamatory book would never have been published,” said Meta Andy Stone spokesman on the company’s Twitter reply app, Threads. “This urgent legal action was made necessary by Williams, who, more than eight years after being interrupted by the company, deliberately hidden the existence of his book project and avoided the standard process of controlling the facts of the sector to hurry it on the shelves after waiting eight years.”

It is the type of criticism that would have affected more hard if Wynn-Williams did not document several cases in which the Meta communication team and the managers seem to have lied or misleaded the public. An example: in 2017, Meta replied to a story in The Australian Declaring it “it does not offer tools to affect people based on their emotional state”.

Wynn-Williams seems to have internal communications that show that if this statement is not wrong, it is highly tendential. Kaplan, the lobbyist destination, asks a colleague just before the statement comes out if “we cannot confirm that we do not target the basis of the insurviousness or how someone feels?”

According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s deputy director of privacy replies: “It is correct, unfortunately”.

The public declaration of Meta infuriates the Facebook staff. However, their concern about the statement is not because it suggests a fragile commitment to the truth. Instead, a manager of Facebook Australia Australia is presumed, who is no name electrocuted at Wynn-Williams that the company does an incredible job in targeting 13-17 years. “This is what puts the money in all our pockets,” he shouts.

Since then Meta has limited the ways in which advertisers can direct children on his platform and has canceled the effort to launch in China in 2019.

It is not clear how exactly Wynn-Williams can produce dialogues literally before, and some of his former colleagues who have also left destination contested parts of his memories, mainly without specifying with which parts of his account I disagree. “A pile of stories is exaggerated or it simply did not happen,” wrote Debbie Frost, an Australian who once managed the Facebook PRs on the thread of the social media platform.

Even before Wynn-Williams gained his Facebook work in 2011, Australia was a problem for the company. Levine, therefore the global vice -president of Facebook’s public policies, tells her that “somehow the worst of the internet ends up on Facebook Australia”. Only one example becomes in the book to justify this statement: a misogynist left page called “Occupy Tony Abbott’s Daughters” Vaginas “. Facebook advertising staff want to leave the page online despite the complaints from the Minister of the then before. Soon, the censorship applications are delivered to another team within the company.

The subsequent battles of Meta with Australia, including the ongoing struggles on payments to printing companies and prohibit teenagers from social media, come after Wynn-Williams was fired in 2017.

(He attributes it to punishment from Facebook because of his complaints against Kaplan. The company claims to be “toxic” and says that an internal investigation concluded that his accusations of harassment was “unfounded”.)

But the book offers a clue to why so few countries have taken on Facebook and Instagram such as Australia and because the Albanian government could slowly push through its plans: Meta makes a deliberate game to hook politicians on its platform as a tool to win the elections. His success is the reason why the leaders of democracies such as the then Minister of Primo Malcolm Turnbull ask Zuckerberg of selfie in the mid -2010 years. Only those who use the platform at the maximum advantage, such as the former Indonesian president Jokowi or Donald Trump, seem to get respect for Zuckerberg. So also some autocrats that reject him, like XI.

So why did Wyn-Williams remain so long? Its logic varies. He says he has an idealistic and Arab vision of the Facebook potential to connect the world at the beginning of his mandate, which seems to reflect his ambitious naivety more than anything else of the company. Later, he feels trapped by the disease and the need to preserve health insurance.

Without a doubt, these played a role, but there is another side for Wynn-Williams who occasionally presents itself. It is one who suggests that he is more similar to Sandberg, an iron elite woman with an relentless commitment to work than she would not like to admit.

Like a fourteen year old, Wynn-Williams is attacked by a shark. After a local doctor makes fun of her, his family returns to their camping holidays and rejects him to ask for help, deriving from a collapsed and proud lung intestine, until he is on the verge of death. When Wynn-Williams wakes up in the hospital and his mother praises the doctors for saving her, he writes: “I saved myself”.

As an adult, Wynn-Williams challenges the reasons for her husband to stop working despite having contractions when they give birth to the hospital. He often mentions his country of origin of New Zealand to strengthen how much it is different from the best brass educated by Harvard but refers to his “friend” accidentally Chris HipkinsLater the first minister of the country. And of course, Wynn-Williams has self-confidence to challenge a company from $ US1.5 trillion and write his book.

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