Sarah Wynn-Williams

After her memoir, a Meta-paid arbitrator ordered Wynn-Williams to stop promoting it at $50,000 per criticism — over $11 million, more than she and her husband have earned in their lives. So at a UK festival she sat on stage for an hour and said nothing.

Cory Doctorow frames it as a Streisand-effect self-own. The thread's skeptics aren't defending Meta so much as noting his essay never once mentions Meta's side — that she signed an NDA, took severance, and that he overstates the China claim.

Wynn-Williams' new federal suit alleges Meta surveilled her for over a year, sending people to her public appearances to photograph her, while seeking $50,000 per claimed breach of a non-disparagement deal.

Meta says she's using the courts to sell books. The thread's skeptics agree she signed an NDA and took severance a decade ago. The counter is harder to dismiss: a company that pays staff to photograph a critic who says nothing is doing exactly what she accuses it of.