Mark Zuckerberg worked with China on 'Custom-Built Censoral Tools': Meta Whistleblower | Mint

Former public public policy director Sarah Wynn-Williams has equated some serious allegations against the Mark Zuckerberg-led company earlier this week. In testimony about Capitol Hill earlier this week, Williams told Senators that Meta ‘hand in glove’ worked with the Chinese Communist Party to build a censorship system to quiet critics on its platform. Williams, who worked at the company from 2011 to 2017, said she was watching when the managers of the Meta decided to give the Chinese government access to the data from Meta users. ‘I have seen the managers of US national security repeatedly undermine and betray US values. They secretly did these things to win favor with Beijing and build a $ 18 billion business in China. We are working on a high AI weapon race against China. And during my time at Meta, managers lied about what they did with the Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, congress and the American public. ‘ “Mark Zuckerberg has promised himself a free speech champion. Yet a witness letter in Love wrote on the Chinese Communist Party to construct and test, tailored censorship instruments to the quiet and censored, their critics,” she added. Williams also made a shocking personal unveiling when she added that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the Meta, learned Mandarin and also wanted Chinese President Xi Jinping to call his first child. “When I was there, he wanted the president of China to call his first child. He learned Mandarin. He censored his heart’s content. Now, his new costume is MMA fights or free speech. We don’t know what the next costume will be, but it will be something else. This is what may get him closest to the power. ‘ Meta responds to the allegations of the whistleblower: Andy Stone, Meta spokesman, said in a statement to NBC that Williams’ testimony was “separated from reality and separated with false demands”. “While Mark Zuckerberg himself was revealed about our interest in offering our services in China and details of a decade ago was widely reported, the fact that we do not operate our services in China today is.” Stone added. First published: 12 Apr 2025, 02:00 IST