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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director at Meta, delivered a searing testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, accusing the tech giant of compromising American values and national security to expand its business in China. She alleged that Meta – formerly Facebook – collaborated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to develop censorship tools and facilitate access to user data, including information on Americans. Her remarks have reignited scrutiny of Meta's operations and its ties to authoritarian regimes.
Wynn-Williams, who served as Facebook's Director of Global Public Policy from 2011 to 2017, painted a damning picture of the company's push to enter the lucrative Chinese market. She claimed that Meta executives misled employees, shareholders, Congress, and the public about their activities in China.
Meta allegedly began offering products in China as early as 2014 and was briefing CCP officials on emerging technologies like artificial intelligence by 2015. Wynn-Williams linked those briefings to recent reports that institutions tied to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's AI model, Llama, for military purposes.
The testimony also referenced internal documents in which Meta pitched its services to help China "increase global influence and promote the China Dream." Wynn-Williams accused the company of pursuing a "secret mission" to build an...
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