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273 After Meta Blocks Whistleblower's Book Promotion, It Becomes an Amazon Bestseller

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/16/2025 14:39 EDT

After Meta Blocks Whistleblower's Book Promotion, It Becomes an Amazon Bestseller

After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company, the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that "The arbitration order has no impact on Macmillan... We will absolutely continue to support and promote it." (They added that they were "appalled by Meta's tactics to silence our author through the use of a non-disparagement clause in a severance agreement.")
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