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by goldchainposse 434 days ago
> allow her book to publish

You mean "Careless People?" It looks like it's on Amazon.

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https://www.thebookseller.com/news/meta-wins-bid-to-prevent-...

It's very sad. She reported to Congress that she faces a $50K per disparagement penalty. Let's say there are 25 disparagements in the book and it sells 100K copies into the Billion+ FB user community. As she pointed out to Congress, a disparagement is a truth. $5B for telling truths from seven or eight years ago.

She shouldn't have signed the nondisparagement agreement when she had juicy material for a book.

These are usually a severance thing and not a term of employment. Some employers are extra clever and make the contract secret and the arbitration secret, so the public has no idea anything even happened.