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A former Facebook policy executive is suing parent company Meta to overturn an order barring her from speaking about the company or promoting her memoir detailing the sexual harassment she faced as an employee.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked as director of global public policy at Facebook from 2011 to 2017, filed the suit in a U.S. district court in California on Thursday. The 57-page complaint states that Meta fired her before she could complain about the sexual harassment she faced while working at Facebook, and that the company compelled her to sign a severance agreement that prevented her from “disparaging” Meta and its executives. The suit also states that Meta used “coercive surveillance,” monitoring her public appearances and her ability to speak about her time at Facebook.

“Meta is punishing Sarah Wynn-Williams for disclosing its illegal and indefensible workplace conditions and corporate misconduct,” the complaint says.

In 2025, the former policy director published a memoir called Careless People, detailing the toxic internal culture at the company and the sexual harassment she faced at the hands of Meta executives. The memoir describes how Zuckerberg and other high-level executives demanded absolute loyalty from employees. It also alleges that Facebook provided the Chinese government with access to its citizens’ data, enabling their surveillance, and that Facebook helped “accelerate genocide in Myanmar” against the country’s Muslim population in 2017. Additionally, Wynn-Williams outlines how Facebook targeted young........

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