Sen. Josh Hawley urged Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday to testify before the Congress in response to Whistleblower’s allegations that he “sold our country’s security for China’s profits”.
Request by Hawley (R-Mo.) Followed the bombshell’s testimony from Sarah Wynn-Williams-a former Facebook policy-expatriate who said Wednesday was a witness of Zuckerberg and the high bronze of the Congress and “repeatedly undermines US national security and betrays American values” in a failed effort to get a failed attempt to get a failed effort and to obtain a failed attempt to get a failed effort and to obtain a failed attempt to obtain a failed. Chinese.
“The public deserves to hear your response to these serious accusations, especially because they belong to American national security,” Hawley said in a letter to Zuckerberg.
Hawley said the subcommitte of his Senate judicial wanted Zuckerberg to testify under the oath at a second hearing on the allegations of Wynn-Williams and said his office would work with meta to “find a suitable time and date” for appearance.
Meta did not immediately respond to the post of commentary request for Hawley’s letter.
Meta’s attempts to enter China eventually failed and Zuckerberg abandoned plans to offer Facebook and Instagram in 2019 – but the company is still earning $ 18 billion a year through advertising sales for Chinese firms.
Wynn-Williams testimony was filled with explosive claims about the alleged Meta efforts to gain access to China as part of a secret internal initiative called “Project Aldrin”. She also detailed her six -year -old season in Meta from 2011 to 2017 in the sharp memory of “careless people”.
Whistleblower claimed that Meta Brass provided reports to the Chinese Communist Party for sensitive technology, including artificial intelligence, with a “clear purpose is to help China’s China China”.
Wynn-Williams said Meta saw the conferences as part of a “proposal of value” to persuade China to allow its products. She said her claims were supported by the documentary evidence she has given to Congress investigators, including internal writings of conversations by senior executives discussed at the hearing.
Hawley demanded that Zuckerberg respond to the claim, as well as the separate claims that Meta created censorship tools by order of the Chinese Communist Party – which exhibited users in Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as endangering Americans’ data.
The Senate also wants Meta’s response to allegations that Meta agreed to block accounts in 2017 operated by Guo Wengui, a self-sacrificed Chinese billionaire and dissident after faced pressure from China.
“Her testimony was filled with explosives accusations of your company’s willingness to endanger American national interests, the betrayal of American users and Chinese dissidents alike and lie about it in Congress,” Hawley wrote.
Hawley said Meta had “lied directly in the congress” during a 2017 hearing session in which a senior executive said he took action against account through regular processes and denied any interference from China.
Hawley recently told The Post in an exclusive interview that Wynn-Williams testimony would be an important trial of greed to determine whether and when Meta leaders had lied to the congress during past hearings.
Meta has strongly denied the allegations of Wynn-Williams.
“The testimony of Sarah Wynn-Williams is divorced from reality and clashed with false claims,” a Meta spokesman said in a statement responding to her claims.
“While Mark Zuckerberg himself was public about our interest in providing our services in China and the details were widely reported starting over a decade ago, the fact is this: we do not operate our services today in China.”
A company spokesman previously said Meta took action against Guo’s account because he had unjustly sensitive data, included passport numbers, social security numbers and home addresses, contrary to its policies.
Meta tried to block Wynn-Williams’ memoirs from getting public attention-and received an arbitration order that prohibits him from promoting or discussing the book publicly.
Numerous Senators, including Hawley, broke out Meta for trying to rule Wynn-Williams who proved that it faces $ 50,000 in damage to any public mention.
“The biggest fraud Mark Zuckerberg ever drawn was wrapping the American flag around himself and calling himself a patriot and saying he did not provide services in China as he spent the last decade building a $ 18 billion business there,” Wynn-Williams said.
Meta said the figure is from the division agreement that Wynn-Williams signed when it left the company in 2017 and applies to any contract violation, not just non-transfer.
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