On Wednesday, Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Director of Global Public Policy for Facebook, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about Meta helping the Chinese Communists develop artificial intelligence to counter the United States and build a censorship tool.
She bravely spoke of how the tech giant threatened her with legal action for even mentioning the company, even if her statements were completely accurate.
“My name is Sarah Wynne-Williams, and I served as the Director of Global Public Policy at Facebook, now Meta, for nearly seven years, starting in 2011. Throughout those seven years, 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,” she said in her opening statement.
She continued:
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
We are engaged in a high-stakes AI arms race against China. During my time at Meta, company executives lied about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress, and the American public. I sit before this committee today to set the record straight about these illegal and dangerous activities.
Meta’s dishonesty started with a betrayal of core American values. 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.
The willingness to censor was not the only troubling thing I witnessed. I watched as executives decided to provide the Chinese Communist Party with access to Meta user data, including that of Americans. Meta does not dispute these facts. They can’t. I have the documents.
As recently as this Monday, they claimed that they do not operate their services in China—another lie. In fact, they began offering products and services in China as early as 2014. That hasn’t stopped. Their own SEC filings from last year show that China is now Meta’s second-biggest market.
Meanwhile, Meta’s AI model, LLaMA, has contributed significantly to Chinese advances in AI technologies like DeepSeek. Facebook’s secret mission to get into China was called Project Aldrin and was restricted to need-to-know staff. There was no bridge too far. Meta built a physical pipeline connecting the United States and China.
Meta executives ignored warnings that this would provide backdoor access to the Chinese Communist Party, allowing them to intercept the personal data and private messages of American citizens. The only reason China does not currently have access to U.S. user data through this pipeline is because Congress stepped in. Meta started briefing the Chinese Communist Party as early as 2015. These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence
The explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies. There’s a straight line you can draw from these briefings to the recent revelations that China is developing AI models for military use, relying on Meta’s LLaMA model.
Meta’s internal documents describe their sales pitch for why China should allow them into the market by, quote, “helping China increase global influence and promote the China Dream.”
Wynn-Williams said the mega-company brought a case against her for hundreds of millions of dollars in order to silence her:
Now, they have a legal gag order that silences me—even as Meta and their proxies spread lies about me. This order is so expansive that it prohibits me from speaking with members of Congress. The gag order was sought by a company whose CEO claims to be a champion of free speech.
The American people deserve to know the truth. Meta has been willing to compromise its values, sacrifice the security of its users, and undermine American interests to build its China business.
It’s been happening for years, covered up by lies, and continues to this day. I am here at considerable personal risk because you have the power and the authority to hold them accountable.”
Here is her entire hearing, which lasts over an hour. Not only is her testimony eye-opening, shocking, and compelling, it’s a rare example of bipartisanship, and it’s nice to see Democrats and Republicans work together on this issue:
At the end, Hawley asked Wynn-Williams about Zuckerberg. Her answer was tactful, but says a lot about the character of the META CEO.
Keep in mind that this is the same company that used pirated books to train its AI while disregarding copyrights. Translation: It stole the copyrighted works of thousands of authors around the world to train the artificial intelligence it now offers to Communist China. Among those books is “Banned: How Facebook Enables Militant Islamic Jihad,” co-authored by our very own Joe Newby and American-Israeli Adina Kutnicki.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Meta.
H/T Gateway Pundit
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