Sarah Wynn-Williams, an executive turned whistleblower at Facebook parent Meta Platforms, plans to testify before the US Congress that the social media giant threatened American interests while cosying up to China – claims the company said are false.
Wynn-Williams, who served as director of global public policy for the company, will tell the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday that she witnessed executives undermining US national security. The testimony will include allegations that Meta, formerly called Facebook, helped China advance in the artificial intelligence (AI) arms race.
“Meta started briefing the Chinese Communist Party as early as 2015,” Wynn-Williams, who recently published a bestselling memoir titled Careless People about her experience at Facebook, said in prepared remarks obtained by Bloomberg News. “These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence. The explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies.”
In her testimony, Wynn-Williams suggests that there’s a “straight line” to draw from these briefings to China’s current use of Meta’s AI tools to build out its military capabilities – a claim she doesn’t support with details or personal experience. Wynn-Williams left Facebook in 2017.
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A representative for Meta said that the testimony is “divorced from reality and riddled with false claims.”
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