Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams plans to tell senators in testimony Wednesday on Capitol Hill that the social media company worked "hand in glove" with the Chinese government to censor its platforms, according to her opening remarks obtained by CBS News.
Wynn-Williams began working at Meta, then known as Facebook, as the director of Global Public Policy in 2011. In her almost seven years at Meta, Wynn-Williams says she witnessed the company provide "custom built censorship tools" for the Chinese Communist Party, allow user data, including that of American users, to be accessed by the CCP, and remove the account of a Chinese dissident.
Wynn-Williams will also allege that Meta's artificial intelligence model known as "Llama" was used to help DeepSeek. DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company that sent shockwaves through the American technology industry earlier this year when its AI model was shown to be competitive with OpenAI's ChatGPT at a fraction of the cost.
In response, a Meta spokesperson called Wynn-Williams' tesimony "divorced from reality and riddled with false claims."
"While Mark Zuckerberg himself was public about our interest in offering our services in China and details were widely reported beginning over a decade ago, the fact is this: we do not operate our services in China today," Meta said in a statement.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, announced the hearing last week.
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