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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