Sarah Wynn-Williams, former Facebook employee (now target) and author of a scathing book about the company, assured American senators on Wednesday that the giant of social networks had collaborated with the Chinese government on intelligence and artificial censorship tools.
“The biggest hand game in Mark Zuckerberg (Founder and Patron of Meta, note of the editor) was to cut from the US flag, qualify as a patriot and say that he did not offer services in China, when the last decade spent to build a company of $ 18 billion,” said Wynn-Williams.
The former head of principles and practices (political) of the group was heard by the judicial subcommittee of the Senate, during a hearing on the finish line with China, and the previous comments of the leaders of the company on this subject, in particular in Congress.
A audience “that Facebook has desperately tried to prevent,” said Josh Hawley, the Republican senator who presides over this body.
An alliance between Beijing and Meta?
Mrs. Wynn-Williams said she saw a “hand” goal with the Chinese Communist Party (PCCH) to develop proven censorship tools in Taiwan and Hong Kong users.
PCC managers “commented on these tools, said this should change, or we need that,” he said. He stayed six years in the company from 2011 to 2017.
In his book Careless people (“People Neglient”), published on March 11 in the United States, revealed that Facebook had designed plans to be accepted in the Chinese market. Plans that have never been carried out, according to a finish spokesman.
“When Beijing asked Facebook to eliminate the story of an eminent Chinese dissident who lives on American soil, they did and then lied to Congress when they were interrogated in the incident during an audience in the Senate,” added Sarah Wynn-Williams on Wednesday.
A denunciator book
According to the complainant, goal even helped China in artificial intelligence, an area where the US government is actively looking for their opponent to catch up with them, particularly with export controls.
Already in 2015, Meta and the PCC have held meetings whose “explicit objective was to help China overcome American companies. We can draw a straight line between these reports and the recent revelations that China develops Models of AI for military purposes, based on flame” (the open source model AI), said Sarah Wynn-Williams.
His book also evokes inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment of Joel Kaplan, former member of the Republican and Allied Party of Donald Trump, who took the lead in international matters of Meta in January. It also portrays Mark Zuckerberg as a cold and unpredictable leader, who has imbued himself, in search of popularity and attention.
Careless people It occupies the second place on the New York Times Bestsellers list, despite the goal attempts to avoid its launch.
“False accusations”
The group confiscated, in an emergency, an arbitral tribunal, which estimated that Sarah Wynn-Williams had to stop promoting his work while waiting for the case on merits to be examined, since he had signed an unadvised agreement when he left in 2017.
But the editor, Flaton Books, a subsidiary of the Macmillan Publishers group, refused to stop the transmission or promotion of the book.
A goal spokesman said in X that the former employee had been fired due to his bad actions and toxic behavior, “saying that” the investigation carried out at that time revealed that he had made deceptive and unfounded accusations. “
Mark Zuckerberg approaches Trump
“You have nothing to lose. You have your integrity,” said Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal to Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Mark Zuckerberg has multiplied the advances with respect to Donald Trump since his second choice in November. Notably appointed Republican allies for important positions in the finish line, ended support programs for diversity and inclusion and paid financial contributions.
He also relaxed the rules of moderation of the content, posing as a defender of freedom of expression.
Source: BFM TV
