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Ex-Facebook employee to tell Congress the company undermined U.S. national security
« on: April 09, 2025, 09:15:33 am »
Ex-Facebook employee to tell Congress the company undermined U.S. national security
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director of global public policy at Facebook, is set to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Wednesday. Meta has disputed her account.
 
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April 8, 2025, 6:37 PM EDT / Updated April 8, 2025, 9:21 PM EDT
By Allan Smith and David Ingram

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook employee who alleged misconduct and sexual harassment at the company in a memoir published last month, will testify before Congress on Wednesday that Meta executives undermined U.S. national security and briefed Chinese officials on emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.

In her introductory statement, obtained by NBC News, Wynn-Williams will tell the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism that Meta executives “lied about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress, and the American public.”


“I saw Meta executives repeatedly undermine US national security and betray American values,” she will say, according to the prepared remarks. “They did these things in secret to win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion dollar business in China,” her statement says, referring to China-based advertisers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/ex-facebook-employee-congress-company-sarah-wynn-williams-meta-senate-rcna200334
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Re: Ex-Facebook employee to tell Congress the company undermined U.S. national security
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2025, 09:19:22 am »
I don't doubt that it is true but whichever senators have been purchased by Meta are going to go after her on the "ax-to-grind" issue.  It will be easy to tell who the payees are by their questioning because if it is a national security issue, they should all be very fair in their questioning.
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Ex-Facebook employee to tell Congress the company undermined U.S. national security
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2025, 09:19:27 am »
Well... lying to Congress is a crime. Maybe start there?
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