A company and founder with such an extensive list of publicly known misdeeds (starting with Facesmash), chances are that there are many skeletons left to uncover. Setting a precedent is no unknown course of action.
It's not much to go by, but I am a commenter on HN, not a lawyer and Occam's razor doesn't disagree either.
Because it is extremely unlikely she knew everything. Based on her book, she was last to learn quite a lot of ugly stuff she reports on - they told her only when they had to.
And she left long time ago. It is even more unlikely that the company magically became clean after her leaving.
A company and founder with such an extensive list of publicly known misdeeds (starting with Facesmash), chances are that there are many skeletons left to uncover. Setting a precedent is no unknown course of action.
It's not much to go by, but I am a commenter on HN, not a lawyer and Occam's razor doesn't disagree either.