Whistleblower testifies Meta undermined US national security

I saw Meta executives repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values

They did these things in secret to win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion business in China

That's the former director of global public policy at Facebook, now Meta

testifying at a Senate hearing Wednesday about the company's foreign relations. Sarah Wynn Williams claims during her seven years of employment there, starting in 2011

she witnessed Meta executives lie about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party

Mark Zuckerberg pledged himself a free speech champion. Yet I witnessed Meta work hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party to construct and test

custom-built censorship tools that silenced and censored their critics. When Beijing demanded that Facebook delete the account of a prominent Chinese dissident living on American soil they did it And then lied to Congress when asked about the incident in a Senate hearing Wynne Williams also testified she witnessed Meta executives provide the Chinese

Communist Party with user data, including data belonging to Americans. Meta responded to Wynne

Williams' testimony after multiple news outlets obtained her planned opening statement Tuesday

ahead of Wednesday's hearing. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone released a statement to NBC News saying

quote, Sarah Wynne-Williams' testimony is divorced from reality and riddled with false claims

While Mark Zuckerberg himself was public about our interest in offering our services in China

and details were widely reported beginning over a decade ago. The fact is this

we do not operate our services in China today. Republican Senator Josh Hawley and chairman of

the Senate Judiciary Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee said Mehta tried to stop him from

holding Wednesday's hearing. Mehta has not responded to that claim. For Straight Arrow

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