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How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta

The company’s attempt to squash an ex-employee’s controversial memoir has gotten the attention of Congress.

A copy of her motion, which I’ve seen, argues that the nondisparagement agreement she signed when she left the company isn’t enforceable, while Meta has used it as the legal basis for banning her from talking about the book. “While her book contains kernels of truth, it is riddled with factual inaccuracies, exaggerations, and omissions, including things she writes about myself and my team’s work on elections (though we are never directly named. Dex Hunter-Torricke, Facebook’s former head of executive communications, contests how she describes a game of Settlers of Catan with Mark Zuckerberg during a work trip in Indonesia.

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