Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook executive, testified on Wednesday on explosive allegations about the social media company’s relationship with China.
In her prepared opening statement for a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, Wynn-Williams accused company founder Mark Zuckerberg of pledging himself as a “free speech champion” while working “hand in glove” with the Chinese Communist Party to “construct and test custom-built censorship tools that silenced and censored critics of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Wynn-Williams—who worked for Facebook from 2011 to 2017 and served as director of global public policy—also claimed that the social media behemoth has been willing to capitulate to the Chinese government, including deleting the account of a notable Chinese dissident living in the United States, and then…
