A former Facebook executive who recently published an explosive tell-all memoir about her time at the company is set to testify before Congress Wednesday about the risk she claims Meta poses to US national security.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s former director of global public policy, sent Meta’s sizable public relations and legal apparatus into overdrive in March when her book debuted, alleging that she had been terminated from the company after accusing its now chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan of sexual harassment. Among other things, the book also charged the company with cozying up to China’s censorship regime in hopes of launching its services there—a topic that Wynn-Williams plans to focus on in her testimony, according to her prepared remarks, which were first reported on by NBC News.

Meta previously told Vanity Fair that the book included a “mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives.” A slew of former employees have also since spoken out, testifying to Kaplan’s character and accusing Wynn-Williams of misrepresenting events.

Meta went so far as to seek an emergency hearing with an arbitrator to enforce a non-disparagement agreement Wynn-Williams signed in exchange for severance when she was fired in 2017. The arbitrator barred Wynn-Williams from promoting the book or “amplifying or repeating” any “disparaging, critical or otherwise detrimental comments.”

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