How a Gag Order Made ‘Careless People’ a Bestseller

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Careless People author Sarah Wynn-Williams stands behind former Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Mark Zuckerberg in 2014.
Photo: Oscar Siagian/Getty Images

Sarah Wynn-Williams can’t do interviews. She can’t post on social media or go on tour or give a talk. Her family can’t speak on her behalf, and her friends are afraid to. None of this has affected the sales of her first book, a memoir of the six years she spent working for Facebook. Instead, it may have helped them: The moment that an arbitrator (requested by Meta) slapped Wynn-Williams with a gag order, banning her from promoting her memoir, Careless People, he handed her the kind of publicity no book party could match. Suddenly, Careless People wasn’t just another…

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