A former global policy director at Meta told a Senate committee that top executives at the social media giant were willing to undermine national security and “betray American values” to build a censored version of Facebook for the Chinese market. Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team that handled China policy issues and has since written a best-selling book that Meta has sought to prevent her from promoting, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Meta — then called Facebook — developed a censorship system in 2015 that would have allowed the Chinese Communist Party to oversee social media content and squash dissenting opinions.
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