{"id":3738,"date":"2026-05-31T23:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:10:47","slug":"meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-sit-in-silence-at-hay-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-sit-in-silence-at-hay-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(from &#8216;The Guardian&#8217;, by Emma L0ffhagen, Sunday 31st May 2026)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/guardian-hay-festival\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Hay festival<\/a>, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her years working at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facebook\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Facebook<\/a>, was due to appear in conversation with the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and academic Tim Wu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Instead, Wynn-Williams sat on stage for the duration of the hour-long discussion between Cadwalladr and Wu, without speaking or responding. She was unable even to nod or shake her head.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/31\/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-stay-silent-at-hay-festival\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from &#8216;The Guardian&#8217;, by Emma L0ffhagen, Sunday 31st May 2026) Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-sit-in-silence-at-hay-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}