INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Later today, a former Facebook employee, Sarah Wynn-Williams, will testify to Congress that Meta executives "repeatedly" sought to
"undermine US national security and betray American values" in "secret" efforts to "win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion dollar
business in China."In her prepared remarks, which will be delivered at a Senate subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism hearing this
afternoon, Wynn-Williams accused Meta of working "hand in glove" with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
That partnership allegedly included efforts to "construct and test custom-built censorship tools that silenced and censored their critics"
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election interference on its platform.Today, Zuckerberg has attempted to move his company further right in seeming efforts to continue
repairing damage from that fallout (with some conservatives still concerned about left-wing bias on social media), and Wynn-Williams'
testimony perhaps stands to frustrate Republican lawmakers in control of Congress, just as they may potentially be warming back up to Meta
In her prepared testimony, Wynn-Williams accused Meta executives of lying "about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party to
employees, shareholders, Congress, and the American public."As early as 2014, Wynn-Williams alleged that Meta "began offering products and
services in China." And as early as 2015, they "began briefing" the CCP "on critical emerging technologies, including artificial
model," Wynn-Williams' remarks said, seemingly referring to a November Reuters report where researchers warned that "top Chinese research
institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential
military applications." (Meta's spokesperson Andy Stone deemed allegations in the report "irrelevant.")
