gchadwick an hour ago

People may be interested in the interview with Wynn-Williams (the whistleblower) on the News Agents podcast: https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrpKCA/ (it's a UK news/political podcast very popular in the UK).

From what they said at the beginning I think this is her first big podcast interview about the book/her claims. I wonder if she chose a UK podcast because of the US arbiter ruling.

badlibrarian an hour ago

Did Zuck buy a copy or just torrent it?

koolba 3 hours ago

This type of heavy handed action always leads to the same outcome for the popularity of the verboten material.

Would love to see the actual severance contract too. It must have some kind of expiration date. Otherwise that kind of indefinite non-disparagement clause is one hell of a sword of Damocles.

  • codelikeawolf 2 hours ago

    Agreed, this has Streisand effect written all over it. I don't know how effective book marketing campaigns normally are, but this type of exposure will blow that out of the water.

    • p0w3n3d an hour ago

      In case of Meta I really doubt. These guys are constantly growing despite of Facebook being nothing more than ads-disguised-as-friends' scrapyard.

    • bsimpson an hour ago

      > Additionally, the arbitrator ruled that so much as Wynn-Williams can control, she is prohibited from further publishing or distributing the book

      So she can't do press. I wonder if this means there will be only one run, or if the publisher can print as many copies as it wants.

    • underdeserver 2 hours ago

      20 points, 3 comments... a bit too early to declare Streisand on this.

      • dagw an hour ago

        This story has be posted to HN several times. The earlier story has 220 points and 50 comments

      • GTP an hour ago

        29 points, five commments & on HN's front page. Still early, but it is growing fast.

      • mystified5016 an hour ago

        One comment thread is not the entire internet you know. There are other websites out there

avgDev an hour ago

I didn't know about this book before, now I do, and I'm going to read it. Thanks Meta!

subpixel an hour ago

I would really not care, but now I'm quite interested.