On Wednesday, a whistleblower appeared before congressional lawmakers and revealed that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, along with a number of other executives, flat out lied to members of Congress, stating that Meta was involved in efforts to help China create artificial intelligence to try currying favor with Beijing.
So much for Zuckerberg’s claim that Facebook would be transforming into a platform to protect free speech. You can’t trust shady dudes like this. If he will backstab his closest friends and partners — which he did — surely he would do the same to the country that provided him with the opportunities he’s taken advantage of to become a billionaire in the tech space.
The whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams, went in-depth concerning her experience as an employee at Meta in her fiery memoir Careless People and testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism that she personally witnessed the founder of Facebook, along with other top level executives, “repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values.”
Here’s more from Fox Business:
Wynn-Williams served as the director of Global Public Policy at Facebook, now Meta, for nearly seven years starting in 2011. She said company executives “did these things in secret to win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion dollar business in China.” Meta allegedly helped China develop advanced artificial intelligence to help outcompete American companies, she said.
“We are engaged in a high-stakes AI arms race against China, and 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,” Wynn-Williams went on to say in her opening statement.
Meta has tried over and over to discredit the claims in Wynn-Williams’ work and to silence her voice, but the book she wrote went straight to the top 10 on Amazon’s best-seller list.
Meta gave a statement to Fox saying that the testimony given by Wynn-Williams was “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,” the statement read.
Among her allegations, Wynn-Williams said Meta’s AI model “has contributed significantly to Chinese advances in AI technologies like DeepSeek.” In addition, Wynn-Williams also said Meta deleted the Facebook account of a prominent Chinese dissident living in the U.S., amid pressure from Beijing.
The account belonged to billionaire Guo Wengui. Meta said it was removed because it violated Facebook’s rules by sharing sensitive information about other people.
“The greatest trick Mark Zuckerberg ever pulled was wrapping the American flag around himself and calling himself a patriot and saying he didn’t offer services in China while he spent the last decade building an $18 billion business there,” Wynn-Williams explained.
Her statement argues that “Meta started briefing the Chinese Communist Party as early as 2015” and those “briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.”
“And he continues to wrap the flag around himself as we move into the next era of artificial intelligence,” the statement said.
Mark Zuckerberg belongs in prison and Facebook must be broken up immediately!
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 9, 2025
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