- Sarah Wynn-Williams, former director of Public Policies on Facebook, spoke in front of the United States Senate
- She said Facebook offered data on US citizens to the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for being allowed to operate in the country.
- Facebook has denied all statements
A former goal executive spoke recently in front of the United States Congress, accusing Facebook and his CEO of supposedly offering confidential data on US citizens to the Chinese government, in exchange for being able to operate in the country.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, former director of Public Policies on Facebook, spoke in front of the Subcommittee Senate Committee on Crime and Contribution.
During the audience, he claimed that for his former employer, “there was not a bridge too far” to reach the Chinese market, and that he would do anything to obtain access to 1.4 billion people who live there, including the offer of data on Americans to the Chinese Communist Party.
Ai and censorship
“The only reason why China does not currently have access to data from US users. Through this pipe is because Congress intervened,” he said.
The company criticized its testimony, calling it “divorced from reality and plagued with false statements,” according to a target spokesman.
“While Mark Zuckerberg himself was public about our interest in offering our services in China and the details were widely informed from more than a decade ago, the fact is this: we did not operate our services in China today,” added the spokesman.
Wynn-Williams didn’t stop there either. He also claimed that Meta contributed to China’s advances in artificial intelligence, since their flame AI models were “openly available” in the country.
There were even mentions of military applications of AI. Finally, he also claimed that Meta collaborated with the Chinese Communist Party in the development of censorship tools, and then lied about it in the public.
Some senators praised the testimony of Wynn-Williams and the fact that the complaint of complaint filed before the SEC and the United States Department of Justice after leaving the social networks business.
They commented that Facebook was afraid that the truth came out and that they would not stop at anything to prevent Wynn-Williams from testifying.
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