Zuckerberg allegedly offered US data to China in bid to enter market, ex-Meta exec tells Senate

Date:
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Description:
Facebook called the accusations "divorced from reality and riddled with false claims".

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- Sarah Wynn-Williams, former Director of Public Policy at Facebook, spoke
in front of the Senate
- She said the company offered data on US citizens to the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for being allowed to operate in the country
- Facebook denied all claims

A former Meta executive recently spoke in front of the US Congress, accusing Facebook and its CEO of allegedly offering sensitive data on American
citizens to the Chinese government, in exchange for being allowed to operate
in the country.

As reported by The Register , Sarah Wynn-Williams, former Director of Public Policy at Facebook, spoke in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism earlier this week.

During the hearing, she alleged that for her former employer, there was no bridge too far to get into the Chinese market, and that it would do anything
to get access to 1.4 billion people living there, including offering data on Americans to the Chinese Communist Party.

AI and censorship

The only reason China does not currently have access to US user data through this pipeline is because Congress stepped in, she was cited saying.

Facebook slammed her testimony, calling it divorced from reality and riddled with false claims, The Register said, citing Meta spokesperson Ryan Daniels.

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, the spokesperson added.

Wynn-Williams did not stop there, either. She also alleged that Meta contributed to Chinas advancements in artificial intelligence, since its
Llama AI models were openly available in the country. There were even
mentions of military applications of AI. Finally, she also alleged that Meta collaborated with the Chinese Communist Party in developing censorship tools, and then lied about it in the public.

Some senators commended Wynn-Williams testimony, and the fact that the filed whistleblower complaints with the SEC and the US Department of Justice after leaving the social media business. They commented that Facebook was afraid of the truth coming out and that they would stop at nothing to prevent Wynn-Williams from testifying.

Via The Register

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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/zuckerberg-offered-us-data-to-china-in- bid-to-enter-market-ex-meta-exec-tells-senate

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