"Meta collaborated with China on AI, censorship and more, then lied to the US Congress about what it was doing." This is the claim made by a former Facebook staff who authored a scathing book -- Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism.
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On Wednesday, the whistleblower made these allegations against the parent company in front of a Senate committee. Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked as the global policy director, between 2011 and 2017, said that top Facebook executives routinely met with Chinese officials, schooling them on technology so they could compete with US products and even helped them build products that would appease China's government censors, as per Agence France-Presse.
"The greatest trick (Meta founder and CEO) Mark Zuckerberg ever pulled was wrapping the American flag around himself and calling himself a patriot and saying he didn't offer services in China while he spent the last decade building an $18 billion business there," the whistleblower said of the Meta chief executive.
"When Beijing demanded that Facebook delete the account of a prominent Chinese dissident living on American soil, they did it and then lied to Congress when asked about the incident in a Senate hearing," she also said, noting that she had seen Meta work "hand in glove" with the Chinese Communist Party to build censorship tools tested on people in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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