Meta has worked “hand in glove” with the Chinese Communist Party and taken steps to “undermine American interests to build its China business,” a Facebook whistleblower said in a Wednesday Senate subcommittee hearing.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked for Facebook from 2011 to 2017 and served as the company’s director of global public policy, told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism that Meta, which owns Facebook, has accommodated the CCP in an attempt to break into the Chinese market and misrepresented its operations before Congress.
She was called to testify before the panel, chaired by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., as part of an effort to investigate, publicize and regulate the potentially harmful inner workings of tech giants like Meta. Congress for years has sought ways to regulate Big Tech, although free speech concerns and powerful lobbying efforts from highly influential companies have served as past roadblocks.
In her memoir “Careless People,” published in March, Wynn-Williams alleged misconduct and sexual harassment at the company, and many of her statements to the Senate subcommittee were also detailed in the book.
She was the lone witness at the hearing. Meta has disputed her claims and the company also took legal steps against Wynn-Williams earlier this year, with an arbitrator deciding that Wynn-Williams should stop promoting the memoir.
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