Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan to Give User Data to China For Mass Surveillance ...

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A new Facebook whistleblower has come forward with shocking allegations—seems like company execs have been trying to cozy up to everyone from the Chinese Communist Party to their own employees. 

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Arizona Rep. Abraham Hamadeh (R-Arizona): A whistleblower’s allegations “raise urgent questions” about Meta’s cooperation with foreign governments.

Hamadeh was responding to a Washington Post report earlier this week about an SEC whistleblower complaint filed by Meta’s former global policy director, Sarah Wynn-Williams, who alleges that the social media giant developed a censorship version of Facebook in 2015, allowing for a “chief editor” who would decide what content to remove or even shut down the entire site during times of “social unrest.”

Arizona Republican questions Mark Zuckerberg over dealings with China

  

Abraham Hamadeh, now an Arizona Republican in the House of Representatives, speaking in 2022. 

(Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)

Rep. Abraham Hamadeh said a whistleblower’s allegations “raise urgent questions” about Meta’s cooperation with foreign governments.

March 14, 2025 at 5:15 p.m. EDTMarch 14, 2025

 

By Naomi Nix

Naomi Nix is a staff writer for The Washington Post, covering Meta and other social media companies. Before joining The Post in 2022, she was a reporter for Bloomberg News and the Chicago Tribune.follow on X@NaomiNixWrites

An Arizona Republican is urging Meta to be more transparent about its effort to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party to implement a censored version of Facebook in the Chinese market.

Rep. Abraham Hamadeh (R-Arizona) wrote a letter dated Friday urging Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to clarify the level of oversight the company was willing to give the CCP over social media content to realize its goal of entering the Chinese market.

An emergency arbitrator this week temporarily prohibited Wynn-Williams from promoting her book, “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” which was released Tuesday. The arbitrator found that Wynn-Williams probably violated a non-disparagement agreement when she released the book, which offered a critical insider’s look at the actions of the social media company’s top executives.

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