“Secret mission”: Meta accused of helping China to “outdo American companies”

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While Meta is also accused of having looted books for her AIthe former director of global public policies of Facebook, between 2011 and 2017, denounces a relationship “Hand in hand” Between Meta and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The company led by Mark Zuckerberg would have provided censorship tools to silence the scheme criticism and allow access to the data of User User.

Sarah Wynn-Williams maintains that from 2014, Meta offered products and services in China. Then, a year later, the company would have informed the CCP on emerging technologies such as AI. The explicit objective was, according to her, “To help China outdo American companies”.

“We can draw a direct line between these briefings and the recent revelations according to which China develops models of military use, relying on the Meta Llama model”she says. The declaration would refer to a report provided by Reuterslast November, in which researchers alert that “Primary Chinese Chinese Research Institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army used Meta's Llama model to develop an AI tool with military potential”.

According to Sarah Wynn-Williams, internal documents prove that Meta has proven the Chinese government its ability to “Help China increase its global influence and promote Chinese dream” as a commercial argument to access the market.

Andy Stone, spokesperson for Meta, described these accusations as “Disconnected from reality and truffled with false allegations”. As proof, he recalls that publicly, Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in 2019 that Meta never found an agreement on operating conditions in China and that the company has never been authorized. “We do not operate our services in China today”insists Andy Stone.

The hearing of Sarah Wynn-Williams took place while a arbitration decision prohibits him from speaking to promote his book Careless people Who tells his seven years at Facebook. Meta applied a non-deceased clause of the ex-framework contract but did not prevent the work from becoming a bestseller or blocked his testimony.

“The American people deserves to know the truth”Sarah Wynn-Williams said to explain her decision to challenge Meta's silence. The ex-framework considers that the company of Mark Zuckerberg is “So expansive that he forbids me to talk to the members of the Congress”.

Andy Stone claims that Meta only opposes her media interviews and that “The position of the company is that it is not prevented from testifying to the congress, neither by her separation agreement nor by the arbitration decision”.

In her testimony, Sarah Wynn-Williams says that the “secret mission” Meta to build “A physical pipeline connecting the United States and China” was only thwarted by the intervention of the congress.

If Donald Trump does everything to soften the regulations on technological companies, the president of the senatorial subcommittee, Josh Hawley, remains critical of these companies like Meta. The Missouri Republican accuses them in particular of exercising a “Monopolistic power” to control information and “Our personal data”.

“Meta has been ready to compromise its values, sacrifice the security of its users and undermine American interests to develop its activities in China”said Sarah Wynn-Williams. “This has happened for years, hidden by lies, and continues until today. I am here at a considerable personal risk because you have the power and the authority to keep them responsible.”