New Delhi, April 12
Social media platform Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are ‘hand in glove’ with China, and have betrayed American values, according to a whistleblower.
A former Meta executive, Sarah Wynn-Williams, has come forward as a whistleblower, accusing the social media giant of compromising US national security to establish a substantial business presence in China.
Wynn-Williams accused Meta executives of allowing the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) to access user data, including that of Americans.
She noted that Meta worked "hand in glove" with Beijing to create censorship tools that were used to silence critics of the CPC.
Wynn-Williams testified this during a congressional hearing led by Senator Josh Hawley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism.
"I saw Meta executives repeatedly undermine US national security and betray American values," Wynn-Williams was quoted as saying by CBS News.
She alleged that Meta built custom censorship tools for the Chinese government which enabled it to extensively control content.
"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," she added.