TNB Tech Minute: Meta Battles to Block an Executive’s Tell-All
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:27.9 | slash UK slash AI for people. Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, March 13th. I'm |
| 0:35.5 | Shara Tipkin for the Wall Street Journal. Meta is fighting to prevent |
| 0:39.9 | its former public policy chief from promoting her tell-all book. Sarah Wynne Williams signed a |
| 0:46.3 | non-d disparagement agreement when she left the company in 2017. But she wrote a book called |
| 0:51.5 | Careless People, a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism, |
| 0:56.8 | which details Mark Zuckerberg's efforts in China. It also makes harassment claims against |
| 1:01.8 | other meta executives. An arbitrator yesterday cited with Meta and said Win Williams can't promote her |
| 1:08.9 | book, but her publisher said it's standing by her |
| 1:11.8 | and will promote the title. Meta spokesman Andy Stone wrote on threads that, quote, |
| 1:17.5 | this ruling affirms that Sarah Wynne Williams' false and defamatory book should never have been |
| 1:22.7 | published. A representative for Wynne Williams didn't have an immediate comment. |
| 1:32.9 | In other meta news, the company will start testing its new community notes fact-checking tool next week. People who are over the age of 18 and have been on Facebook, Instagram, |
| 1:39.3 | or threads for more than six months and are in good standing can sign up to be a contributor. |
| 1:46.5 | Those contributors will be able to add notes to posts. |
| 1:49.9 | If a post gets enough notes, meta will show a public community fact check on it. |
| 1:55.1 | Community notes mark meta's shift to having users police content on its platforms, instead of the company moderating posts. |
| 2:03.0 | And online marketplaces are mimicking social media to help boost sales. |
| 2:08.5 | Companies like eBay and Etsy are copying tactics used by Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. |
| 2:15.4 | One focus is algorithm-based personalization to keep users scrolling and help them find new products |
| 2:22.0 | to buy. |
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