Sen. Josh Hawley urged Chief Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday to testify before Congress in response to Whistleblower’s accusations that he “sold our country’s security for China’s profits”.
The request from Hawley (R-Mo.) Followed the bombshell’s testimony by Sarah Wynn-Williams-a former Facebook policy-expatriate who said Wednesday was a witness of Zuckerberg and other bronze in Congress and “repeatedly undermine US national security and the betrayal of the Chinese market.
“The public deserves to hear your response to these serious serious accusations, especially because they belong to American national security,” Hawley said in a letter to Zuckerberg.
Hawley said the subcommitte of his Senate judiciary wanted Zuckerberg to testify under a second hearing on the allegations of Wynn-Williams and said his office would work with a suitable time and date “for the appearance.
Meta did not immediately respond to the post of commentary request for Hawley’s letter.
Meta and Meta to enter China finally 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 tracks 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 goal 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 separate claims that Meta created censorship tools behind the Chinese Communist Party – which exposed 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 the American national interest, betrayal of American users and Chinese dissidents alike and lie about it in Congress,” Hawley wrote.
Hawley said Meta had “directly lied to the congress” during the 2017 hearing 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 has clashed with false claims,” said a Meta spokesman in a state responding to her claims.
“While Mark Zuckerberg himself was public for our interest in providing our services in China and the details were widely reported starting on a decade action, the fact is: We do not operate our services today in China.”
A spokesman for the company previously said Meta took action against Guo’s account because it had improper sensitive data, included passport numbers, social security numbers and home addresses, contrary to its police.
Meta tried to block Wynn-Williams memories of receiving public attention-and to receive an arbitration order that forbids him from promoting or discussing the book publicly.
Numerous senators, including Hawley, broke out Meta for trying to rule Wynn-Williams, which 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 him 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-Wilmiams 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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