Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams accused the social media company of undermining national security and briefing China on U.S. AI efforts in order to grow its business there.
Wynn-Williams, who was fired as Facebook's director of global policy in 2017, spoke before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
'We are engaged in a high-stakes AI arms race against China. And during my time at Meta, company executives lied about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress, and the American public,' Wynn-Williams said in her prepared testimony.
Her book 'Careless People,' an explosive insider account of her time at the social media giant, sold 60,000 copies in its first week and reached the top 10 on Amazons best-seller list.
The tech giant two weeks ago won an emergency ruling to temporarily stop Wynn-Williams from promoting or further distributing copies of her memoir, invoking the terms of her eight-year-old separation agreement while doing so.
Meta used a 'campaign of threats and intimidation' to silence the former executive, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, during the hearing.
Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now Meta, from 2011 until she was fired in 2017.
'Throughout those seven years, I saw Meta executives repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values. They did these things in secret to win favor with Beijing and build an 18...
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