Following the explosive response to her tell-all memoir, an ex-Facebook director-turned-whistleblower testified before Congress on Wednesday alleging Facebook’s close relationship with China poses serious risks to U.S. national security, a charge parent company Meta denies.
In “Careless People,” published last month, Sarah Wynn-Williams, a lawyer, former diplomat and ex-director of global public policy, who worked at Facebook for seven years starting in 2011, describes misconduct and harassment at the hands of Meta executives, including accusations that the company has lied about its relationship to China.
In her book, Wynn-Williams alleges sexual harassment at the hands of top executives. Meta has previously said her statements are “misleading” and “unfound.” She was fired in 2017, according to reports, for “poor performance.” In the book, she also accuses Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg of lying during a 2018 Senate hearing and downplaying his relationship with the Chinese government.
Within a week of its publication, the book made it to the New York Times’ bestseller list not long before Meta hit Wynn-Williams with a gag order banning her from promoting the memoir, alleging it violated a nondisparagement contract she had signed. Attorneys representing the former executive said Meta is threatening her with a $50,000 fine each time she makes disparaging comments about the company.
Despite this, the former executive still agreed to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary...
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