Facebook was willing to go to extreme lengths in order to appease the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to allow Meta apps into China, whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams revealed in a Washington Post exclusive earlier this month.
Wynn-Williams was a former employee of Meta, who worked on a team handling China’s policies, and noted that Meta was desperate to enter the profitable Chinese Market. However, as Meta became lenient to the Chinese Government in attempts to appeal to them in order to allow Meta to access millions of new users, it put the safety and privacy of others on the line.
Wynn-Williams filed a complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in April and strengthened her claim by providing internal documents from Meta.
Meta Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had been seen attempting to appease the Chinese government as early as 2014. An email was sent by Zuckerberg to COO Shyrl Sandburg and then-Facebook communications and public policy head Elliot Schrage, saying that the company’s mission to connect the world would be fulfilled if China had access to Facebook.
“If we want to have more of our services available in China in 3 years, I think we need to start intensively working on this now,” Zuckerberg wrote in an email in 2014 contained by the SEC complaint.
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