The tech giant worked "hand in glove" with the Chinese government to block opposition on its platforms, according to a former Meta executive who testified before US senators, and threatened national security to expand its business in China.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, who used to be a global public policy director at Facebook, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday that top leaders at Meta cared more about making money than about safety or protecting U.S. interests, according to CBS News. "I saw Meta executives repeatedly undermine US national security and betray American values," Wynn-Williams said in her opening remarks. She claimed that Meta, which used to be called Facebook, allowed the Chinese Communist Party to access user data, including data from American users. When engineers pointed out possible security risks, top company leaders—including CEO Mark Zuckerberg—reportedly didn’t take the warnings seriously.
Wynn-Williams also said that Facebook and Instagram, Meta’s popular social media platforms, helped Beijing create tools for censorship. "Mark Zuckerberg pledged himself a free speech champion. Yet I witnessed Meta working hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party to construct and test custom-built censorship tools that silenced and censored their critics," she said. "One thing the Chinese Communist Party and Mark Zuckerberg share is that they want to silence their critics. I can say that from personal experience," she added. In March, Wynn-Williams...
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