A 2024 whistleblower complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly exposes a Facebook censorship plan to help the company now known as Meta to enter the Chinese market, offering the country say over content.
Also, in a "mutual interests" appeal to a senior Chinese regulatory official, founder Mark Zuckerberg "agreed to crack down on the account of a high-profile Chinese dissident living in the United States," The Washington Post reported from Sarah Wynn-Williams' complaint filed last April.
In response to Newsmax's report on the allegations, a Meta spokesman noted the company long decided against complying to China's demands.
"This is all pushed by an employee terminated eight years ago for poor performance," a Meta spokesperson wrote in a statement to Newsmax, noting the Post declined to include the full statement in its report. "We do not operate our services in China today. It is no secret we were once interested in doing so as part of Facebook's effort to connect the world.
"This was widely reported beginning a decade ago. We ultimately opted not to go through with the ideas we'd explored, which Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2019."
China has long been under fire for censorship in its country, blocking Western social media companies, engaging in forced technology transfer and intellectual property theft in big tech.
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