Meta’s whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams claims that Facebook (now Meta) had operations in China from 2014 without the knowledge of the US government or the general public. “They did these things in secret to win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion business in China,” Wynn-Williams testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
Wynn-Williams worked with Meta as the Director of Global Policy from 2011 to 2017. She worked closely with top-level executives, including founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, reminded Senator Josh Hawley, chairman of the committee established to investigate Meta’s involvement with the Chinese government.
“Facebook has been blocked in China since 2009. We are not in a position to know exactly how the government would seek to apply its laws and regulations on content,” said Mark Zuckerberg in another congressional hearing in 2018.
So how could a company banned in China since 2009, as Zuckerberg himself stated, operate and build an $18 billion business there, as claimed by Wynn-Williams?
She also alleged that Meta uses predatory practices to spy on “young children and young mothers” who are “emotionally vulnerable,” targeting them with ads. However, in the two-hour-long exchange with Congress, the focus was more on the geopolitical implications of Meta’s actions than on the alleged privacy concerns.
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