Posted on 04/10/2025 7:43:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
A former Meta executive turned whistleblower just dropped a political nuke that has rocked Capitol Hill and should terrify every American who values freedom, privacy, and national sovereignty.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, once Facebook’s director of global public policy (now Meta), appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday and leveled jaw-dropping allegations against her former employer.
That Meta knowingly briefed the Chinese Communist Party on advanced U.S. technologies, including artificial intelligence, beginning in 2015—just to get a seat at Beijing’s lucrative tech table.
“These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence – explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies,” said Wynn-Williams, who worked at the social media giant from 2011 to 2017, 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.
Project Aldrin, as it was known internally, was Meta’s covert initiative to worm its way into the Chinese market. But according to Wynn-Williams, it wasn’t just about business—it was about compromise.
Her testimony details how Meta’s briefings helped the CCP leapfrog U.S. competitors by giving them insights into emerging technologies meant to secure America’s future.
Her disclosures didn’t stop at AI. Wynn-Williams also revealed that Meta built a censorship engine for the CCP in 2015, and in 2017, willingly took down accounts belonging to Chinese dissident Guo Wengui after pressure from Beijing.
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) tore into Meta, calling its attempt to silence 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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ITAR violations? If so, criminal.
Nobody uses the word “Bombshell” more than Gateway Pundit...LOL
Corporations have no patriotism nor allegiances.............
Yet they still have to operate within the law.
Time to face the music.
She better stay away from windows and parks.
I have little doubt that this is mostly true.
Bombshell = consequentional, but certainly nothing will ever happen
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Who here actually thought Zuckerberg was red pilled? Not me. I’ve never trusted that worm of a man.
And it matters not one wit unless people go to prison. Long prison sentences. This has been a very dark time in America where we almost lost this country. People seriously need to put in prison as a strong warning to all who would follow.
He sold out this country for 30 shekels of silver.
China has been playing this game for 45 years
tout the “big Chinese market” while forcing foreign companies into JVs with state companies, and/or revealing technology to Chinese government and partners.
The Chinese market is indeed big, but especially in a strategic or high-tech industry - they will NEVER let foreigners have anything except a very minor share. The plan is always to learn/take/steal what they can, and squeeze you out.
And yet there’s always a western company sucker willing to step up for the scam
As if.
And now, mega billions later, he is just as disagreeable and amoral as then. Total loser.
Not surprising he would sell the USA down the river for himself to the Chicoms. That is totally in character for him.
You can be sure he has enough congressmen and senators, judges and prosecutors on his payroll that this story will fade into oblivion.
Her testimony details how Meta’s briefings helped the CCP leapfrog U.S. competitors by giving them insights into emerging technologies meant to secure America’s future.
WHY IS META STILL IN BUSINESS?.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$??????????????????????
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”He suckered China in.”
@DailyCaller
Is AI in a broad sense covered under ITAR? I really doubt it. IF they talked about specific defense systems or encryption tech that would be. But AI is kind of the wild wild west right now, new developments constantly and no way ITAR can keep up unless they do a blanket ban on AI discussions and that would make some headlines for sure.
Thanks for the ping Liz...
Yes, he’s a total worm, a slug of man, completely amoral in his business dealings. And his wife is Chinese. What a co-inky-dink!
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