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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing a potential criminal referral following revelations that Facebook was willing to grant the Chinese Communist Party access to the data of Americans.

As we reported on Thursday, Sarah Wynn-Williams, META’s former director of global public policy, made a series of shocking allegations against her former employer, claiming the company briefed the CCP on advanced U.S. technologies.

Wynn-Williams claimed Zuckerberg did everything and anything he could to cozy up to China, which put America’s security at risk.

During her testimony to a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, the Facebook whistleblower said Zuckerberg sought “to win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion business in China.”

“There’s a straight line you can draw from these briefings to the recent revelations that China is developing AI models for military use,” she said.

She also highlighted that China was given access to user data of Americans who interfaced with Chinese citizens, whose data was kept by the Chinese government.

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Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said the revelations could lead to a criminal referral against Zuckerberg.

Hawley posted on X:

“And here you have it, straight from a former Facebook employee … Meta was willing to store data in China & give the Chinese government access to it … To hell with Americans’ user data and personal information.

It’s always been profit & power for Meta.”

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“This is extraordinary. This is exactly contrary to what Facebook has represented for years,” Hawley said in a video shared with his post.

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“Here they’re willing to build data centers [to] store data in China. They’re willing explicitly to give the Chinese government access to it,” he said.

“And if that means that American user data is also compromised, they’re willing to do that, too. All for profits in China. There was virtually nothing they weren’t willing to do.”

However, Hawley believes there is more to uncover.

“They’re flying CCP officials to the United States and doing meetings, I mean, that is something. So I think it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” Hawley said, according to NOTUS.

“We may need to refer him to the Department of Justice. We’ll look and see if there are other instances that we need to be pursuing in that regard,” Hawley said.

He also noted that Zuckerberg’s previous testimony about Meta’s partnership with China was “at best highly misleading.”

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut also weighed in, saying that “American people are going to be pretty outraged that Mark Zuckerberg sold out America with China and that he imperiled our national security.”

Hawley said he had written to Zuckerberg to testify about Facebook’s cozy relationship with China.

“After yesterday’s shocking revelations, it’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to come to Capitol Hill, take an oath, and answer to America for how he has sold out our country’s security for China profits,” Hawley posted on X, along with a copy of his letter to Zuckerberg.

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Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is begging President Donald Trump to undo his executive order and rejoin the UN-run agency.

The U.S. formally withdrew from the WHO after President Trump issued an executive order earlier this year.

Trump cited the agency’s failure to hold China accountable and its role in pushing radical globalist health agendas as key reasons for the decision.

The U.S. has since halted all funding to the WHO, redirecting resources to domestic health initiatives that prioritize American interests.

At a Thursday press conference in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pleaded for the U.S. to rejoin the agency, claiming it was in the country’s “best interest” to remain.

Tedros said:

“I hope there will be some formal engagement for a very honest and candid dialogue for the U.S. to come back to the World Health Organization.

I’ve said it many times: the U.S. withdrawal from WHO is a lose-lose.

It’s in the best interest of the U.S. to stay in WHO. It’s a matter of health security — one that keeps the U.S. safe, and the rest of the world safe, by being part of the WHO.

It also has many other benefits for the U.S. to remain within the WHO family.

All the investments it has made are in its own best interest. That’s what we believe, and I hope they will reconsider and rejoin the WHO family.”

In March, the WHO began major staffing cuts and financial restructuring due to a lack of funds.

The Trump administration accused the global health agency of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises after Trump signed the executive order to end its funding.

President Trump noted how the U.S. “paid $500 million” to the WHO and highlighted how China was paying significantly less, which he deemed “a little unfair.”

Trump said:

“That’s a big one. So, we paid $500 million to [the] World Health Organization when I was here, and I terminated it.

China, with 1.4 billion people, we have 350 … nobody knows what we have because so many people came in illegally.

But, let’s say we have 325, they have 1.4 billion, they were paying $39 million, we were paying $500 million.

Seemed a little unfair to me, so that wasn’t the reason, but I dropped out.”

Faced with an income gap of nearly $600 million this year, the WHO has proposed slashing its budget for 2026–27 by 21%, from $5.3 billion to $4.2 billion.

According to the note, the WHO’s executive board reduced the proposed budget for 2026–27 from $5.3 billion to $4.9 billion in February.

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Sarah Wynn-Williams, META‘s former director of global public policy, dropped a devastating bombshell during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism this week.

Wynn-Williams, who has since become a whistleblower against the big tech giant, made a series of shocking allegations against her former employer.

The former META director claimed that her company briefed the Chinese Communist Party on advanced U.S. technologies—including AI—just to get a seat at Beijing’s lucrative tech table, while putting America at risk.

“These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence – explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies,” said Wynn-Williams, according to the New York Post.

“There’s a straight line you can draw from these briefings to the recent revelations that China is developing AI models for military use, relying on Meta’s Llama model,” she added.

On the surface, Project Aldrin was presented as Meta’s covert initiative to enter the Chinese market, but Wynn-Williams claimed there was much more to it.

Meta’s briefings helped the CCP by giving them insight into emerging technologies in the U.S., Wynn-Williams said.

She also revealed that Meta built a censorship engine for the CCP and took down accounts belonging to Chinese dissident Guo Wengui.

Below is Wynn-Williams’ opening statement:

“My name is Sarah Wynne-Williams, and I served as the Director of Global Public Policy at Facebook, now Meta, for nearly seven years, starting in 2011. Throughout those seven years, I saw Meta executives repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values. They did these things in secret to win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion business in China.

We are engaged in a high-stakes AI arms race against China. During my time at Meta, company executives lied about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress, and the American public. I sit before this committee today to set the record straight about these illegal and dangerous activities.

Meta’s dishonesty started with a betrayal of core American values. Mark Zuckerberg pledged himself a free speech champion, yet I witnessed Meta work hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party to construct and test custom-built censorship tools that silenced and censored their critics. When Beijing demanded that Facebook delete the account of a prominent Chinese dissident living on American soil, they did it—and then lied to Congress when asked about the incident in a Senate hearing.

The willingness to censor was not the only troubling thing I witnessed. I watched as executives decided to provide the Chinese Communist Party with access to Meta user data, including that of Americans. Meta does not dispute these facts. They can’t. I have the documents.

As recently as this Monday, they claimed that they do not operate their services in China—another lie. In fact, they began offering products and services in China as early as 2014. That hasn’t stopped. Their own SEC filings from last year show that China is now Meta’s second-biggest market.

Meanwhile, Meta’s AI model, LLaMA, has contributed significantly to Chinese advances in AI technologies like DeepSeek. Facebook’s secret mission to get into China was called Project Aldrin and was restricted to need-to-know staff. There was no bridge too far. Meta built a physical pipeline connecting the United States and China.

Meta executives ignored warnings that this would provide backdoor access to the Chinese Communist Party, allowing them to intercept the personal data and private messages of American citizens. The only reason China does not currently have access to U.S. user data through this pipeline is because Congress stepped in. Meta started briefing the Chinese Communist Party as early as 2015. These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence—

The explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies. There’s a straight line you can draw from these briefings to the recent revelations that China is developing AI models for military use, relying on Meta’s LLaMA model.

Meta’s internal documents describe their sales pitch for why China should allow them into the market by, quote, “helping China increase global influence and promote the China Dream.”

The truth about what has gone on in China matters. I filed a shareholder resolution asking Meta’s board to investigate its activity in China, and I filed whistleblower complaints with the SEC and the DOJ.

The measure of how important these truths are is directly proportionate to the ferocity of Meta’s efforts to censor and intimidate me. I relied on their commitment given in 2018 that they would waive their rights to pursue forced arbitration. Despite that public commitment, they brought a case against me for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Now, they have a legal gag order that silences me—even as Meta and their proxies spread lies about me. This order is so expansive that it prohibits me from speaking with members of Congress. The gag order was sought by a company whose CEO claims to be a champion of free speech.

The American people deserve to know the truth. Meta has been willing to compromise its values, sacrifice the security of its users, and undermine American interests to build its China business.

It’s been happening for years, covered up by lies, and continues to this day. I am here at considerable personal risk because you have the power and the authority to hold them accountable.”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) ripped Meta, calling its attempt to silence whistleblower Wynn-Williams a “corporate cover-up.”

“This is exactly contrary to what Facebook has represented for years. [And] here they’re willing to build data centers [to] store data in China. They’re willing explicitly to give the Chinese government access to it,” Hawley said.

“And if that means that American user data is also compromised, they’re willing to do that, too. All for profits in China. There was virtually nothing they weren’t willing to do.”

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