A Meta whistleblower could prove that Mark Zuckerberg “lied to Congress” about the social media giant’s ties to China when she testifies on Capitol Hill next week, Sen. Josh Hawley told The Post in an exclusive interview.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook global policy director who worked on China issues, is slated to go in front of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee chaired by Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday — despite Meta’s frantic attempts to muzzle her from promoting or publicly discussing her bombshell memoir, “Careless People.”

The memoir includes explosive allegations about Meta’s failed bid to gain favor with China — including building a “censorship system” in 2015 that would allow Beijing to block certain words and “making efforts to hide Meta’s cooperation with the CCP from the United States Congress,” according to Wynn-Williams. Meta ultimately dropped its bid to enter China in 2019.

Hawley said Wynn-Williams’ tell-all reveals how Meta “worked actively, hand in glove, with the Chinese Communist Party” in a way that allowed Beijing to “go after dissidents” and put American data at risk.

“All of this stuff, Facebook has said for years they never did,” the Republican told The Post. “They’ve always said, ‘Oh no, no, we never censored. We never would. We have these values.’ What I see here is they have lied to the public and lied to Congress.”

Hawley argued that Meta’s attempts to “silence” Wynn-Williams directly contradicted recent claims by Zuckerberg that Meta...

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