Inviring violations Sarah Wayne Williams accuses dead of collusion with China
Sarah Win Williams, former head of public policy on Facebook, witnessed to the US Senate today about the company’s relationship with China.
According to Wynn-Williams, the company now known as Meta worked directly with the Chinese Community Party (CCP) to “undermine US national security and betray American values.”
It claims that Facebook has created dedicated control tools for CCP, which gave a “large editor” wide -ranging power to the extent that they can choose to close the service in certain areas of China or on certain dates, such as the memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
He denied the dead Wayne Williams.
“The testimony of Sarah Win Williams is absolute and full of wrong demands,” Meta, Ryan Daniels, said in a statement to Techcrunch. “While Mark Zuckerberg himself was public about our interest in providing our services in China and details have been reported on a large scale for more than a decade, the truth is: We do not manage our services in China today.”
Wayne Williams’s testimony was very expected. In March, she published a book on her time on Facebook entitled “Careless People: a Typeryari Tale of Power, greed, and lost idealism.”
The next day to publish the book, Meta won a temporary decision from one of the arbitrators, who said that Wynn-Williams violated a condition other than emptying it when she left the company. But it seems that Meta’s desire to reduce the arrival of the book has an opposite effect-now, is the number 2 in the list of the best sellers at New York Times in a non-imaginary framework.
Meta Techcrunch that the arbitration matter does not prevent it from speaking to Congress and that the company does not intend to interfere in its legal rights. The company also said it is not a secret to do a job in China.
Near the end of the duration of Wynn-Williams in 2017, Facebook launched a photo sharing application called colored balloons in China, as well as an application called Moments. Meta notes that it was previously reported and that it reveals in government deposits that it generates advertising revenues from China, although its services such as Facebook and Instagram are banned there.
For each Meta files for 10-K, it achieved revenue of $ 18.3 billion for 2024, an increase of 13.69 billion dollars and $ 7.4 billion in 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Win Williams claims that a dead relationship with the Chinese government is going deeper.
The documents with Congress shared, and Senator Josh Holie showed some versions transferred from these documents in the session.
In one email, it seems that Facebook executives have discussed the CCP access to user data from China and Hong Kong.
“It seems that Facebook was ready to provide user data in Hong Kong to the Chinese government at a time when the demonstrators supporting democracy were opposing the Beijing Campaign,” said Senator Richard Blumenant. She said that.
She said: “As part of the developed control tool, there were virus meters – so at any time a piece of content gets more than 10,000 views, it would automatically review it by what they called the main editor.” “Which was particularly surprising is that the viruses are not only installed, but were activated in Hong Kong and also in Taiwan.”
Senator Blumentel indicated that Zuckerberg had previously denied in light of the section that Facebook built control tools to enter the Chinese market.
Wynn-Williams added that if Meta will share the Chinese user data with the Chinese government, from a technological perspective, she does not think that there will be a way to avoid sharing user data from Americans who interacted with Chinese users.
She also claimed that Mita had briefed China on developments with many technologies such as artificial intelligence and face recognition.
Win Williams said before the Senate: “The greatest trick was withdrew by Mark Zuckerberg ever was the winding of the American flag around him and describing himself as a national, and he said he did not provide services in China, while the past decade spent building a $ 18 billion commercial project there,” said Win Williams before the Senate.
She added: “It continues to wrap the flag around it while we move to the next era of artificial intelligence.”