Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) requested a major tech CEO to respond to allegations that he previously sold out to communist China.
Hawley wrote a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, asking him to testify and respond to the serious accusations from Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook policy executive. The former executive-turned-whistleblower testified before the Senate Judiciary on Wednesday, affirming that she 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.”
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On April 10, Hawley wrote a letter to Zuckerberg, highlighting a number of the whistleblower’s allegations, including that Guo Wengui—a Chinese dissident currently in jail in America—was censored to appease the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Wynn-Williams also told the Senate that Meta briefed the CCP on artificial intelligence (which the CCP uses for military purposes), agreed to hand over Chinese and Hong Kong data to the CCP, and developed a censorship tool to assess posts from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Hawley wrote, “The public deserves to hear your response to these serious allegations, particularly since they pertain to American national security. To that end, we request your testimony at a forthcoming Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, hearing entitled ‘A Time for Truth, Part II: Oversight of Meta’s Foreign Relations and Representations to the United States Congress.’”
While Meta has given up on entering the Chinese market since 2019, it still makes $18 billion a year through selling ads to Chinese firms.
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