A former Meta executive, Sara Vyan-Delhi, has come forward as a whistleblower, accusing the US national security to establish sufficient commercial attendance in China.
According to WYNN-Williams, Meta officials took decisions, which allowed the Chinese Communist Party to reach user data, including Americans. The testimony was given during a Congress hearing under the leadership of Senator Josh Hale, who presides over the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism.
“I noticed that meta officials repeatedly reduced American national security and cheated American values,” Wynn-Williams said in their initial comments CBS News,
WYNN-Williams alleges that Meta constructed a custom censorship tool for the Chinese government, allowing comprehensive control over material moderation.
Sen Hale opened the hearing, saying that Meta had “stopped at all to stop the testimony of Wednesday by Ms. Vyan-Williams. He also said, “Why is Facebook so desperate to stop this witness from telling what she knows?”
He said, “Mark Zuckerberg wrapped the American flag around him and called himself a patriot and said that he did not offer services in China, while he spent making a business of $ 18 billion in the last decade,” he said.
Meta disputes these claims, stating that the testimony of Wynn-Williams is “divorced from reality and is full of false claims”. However, Wynn-Williams says Meta works were deliberately done citing the company’s interest in expanding its business in China.
However, company spokesman Ryan Daniel said that although Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made public public about the company’s interest in offering his services in China, “[T]That fact is: We do not operate our services in China today. ,
WYNN Williams also said that Meta worked with Beijing “hand” to make censorship equipment to silence the Chinese Communist Party critics.
WYNN-Williams claims that Meta threatened her with $ 50,000 in punitive loss to speak, even if her statements were true. Meta makes it clear that this amount is for every material violation of its separation agreement, not to testify before the Congress.
In his testimony, Vyan-Delhi also alleged that Meta’s Artificial Intelligence Model, Lama was used to help Chinese AI company Dipsek. The claim has raised further questions about the Meta relations with Chinese companies and its commitment to protect the user data.
In a statement on Lama last year, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote, “The alleged role of a single and old version of an American open-source model is irrelevant when we know that China is already investing more than 1T to cross the US technically, and Chinese technical companies are rapidly, or rapidly releasing their own open AI models.
Charges against Meta increased between the US and China on national security, economic interests and technological progress. The Trump administration has increased tariffs on Chinese goods and is chasing the sale of tiktok to an American buyer. The House of Representatives has established a selection committee on strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party to investigate China’s challenge for American global power.
