Later today, Facebook, a former employee, Sarah Wayne Williams, will testify to the Congress that Meta’s executives “repeatedly” tried to weaken US national security “and deceive US values” in “secret” efforts “winning the right to Beijing and trying to make $ 18 billion in China.”
In that Ready remarksWhich will be presented to the Senate subcommittee on crime and counter -terrorism hearing this afternoon, Van Williams accused Meta of working on a “hands -in glove” at Meta with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The partnership allegedly included “Customs Bullet Censorship Tools efforts to build and examine their critics, which silenced and censored their critics”, as well as the CCP “access to Meta user’s data-which includes Americans.”
Van Williams worked as Director of Facebook Director Global Public Policy from 2011 to 2018. She went to height Cambridge Analytica ScandalSince the Congress inquired on its platform Mark Zuckerberg on misinformation and electoral intervention.
Today, Zuckerberg has tried to move his company more to the right in an attempt to continue to repair the results (some conservatives are still worried about left -wing prejudice on social media), and Wayne Williams’ testimony may be frustrated by Republican legislators to frustrate the Congress. In his developed testimony, Van Williams “accused Meta’s executives of” lying about what she was doing with the Chinese Communist Party, “shareholders, the Congress and the American people.”
In early 2014, Van Williams alleged that Meta “started offering products and services in China.” One Williams claimed that in early 2015, he started briefing “CCP” about critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, “Wayne Williams claimed.
“You can attract recent revelations from the briefings that China is developing an AI model for military use, relying on Meta Lama’s model,” said One Williams’ remarks. Report Where researchers warned that “people’s Liberation Army -linked Chinese research institutes have used the Meta’s publicly available Lalma model to produce AI tool for potential military applications.”