Facebook ‘worked hand in glove’ with China, claims ex-director

Former senior Facebook executives told the BBC about how social media large companies worked with the Chinese government on the potential methods of Beijing’s censorship and content to control China’s censorship and contents.

Sara Wynn -williams, a global public policy director, said Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, can approach hundreds of millions of users, and agreed to hide the viral post until the Chinese authorities can check in exchange.

Williams, who claimed in a new book, also filed an internal accuser dissatisfaction with the US market regulator SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), and meta insisted on the wrong investor. The BBC reviewed complaints.

Facebook’s parent company Meta said Wynn-Williams said in 2017 that employment was terminated.

“We are a secret that we are not interested in once,” in China’s operational service. “We ultimately decided not to go through the ideas we explored.”

Meta said in 2019, saying Mark Zuckerberg’s opinion. [China] Never listen to us. “

Facebook was also found when young teenagers felt vulnerable as part of their research on advertisers using Adgorithms, Wynn-Williams argued.

A former New Zealand diplomat, she joined Facebook in 2011 and said she saw the company growing up in “front seats.”

Now she wants to show “decision -making and moral compromise” that she continued when she was there. “Many people I worked together will be the center.”

As her memoirs, careless people, Wynn-Williams drew a picture of working on Facebook’s senior team.

She said Zuckerberg didn’t wake up before noon, she liked karaoke, and didn’t like beating in board games like danger. “I didn’t know that you had to win him. I was a little naive,” she said to us.

But Wynn-Williams says that her claim to a close relationship with the company and China provides insight into Facebook’s decision-making at the time.

“China is the White Whale of Mark Zuckerberg.” Wynn-williams says, “It means a compulsive goal, Wynn-Williams says.

This country is the world’s largest social media market, but with X and YouTube, access to Facebook is still blocked.

“This is a work that he did not conquer in the board game,” she says.

Wynn-williams argued that as part of negotiations with the Chinese government in the mid-2010s, Facebook considered that it allowed Chinese citizens to access future user data.

“He along with the Chinese Communist Party, wearing gloves and building censorship tools.

Wynn-williams often asked the government to explain how the side of the Facebook software works, but it is exclusive information.

“But when it came to the Chinese, the curtain was pulled back,” she says.

“Engineers have come out. They have passed all aspects, and Facebook not only made it skill enough for these Chinese officials to learn about these products, but also tested Facebook in the censorship of these products.”

Meta told the BBC that such claims about China were “widely reported” at that time.

In her SEC dissatisfaction, Wynn-williams also insisted that Zuckerberg and other meta executives made a “misunderstanding statement” in response to a parliamentary investigation into China.

One of the 2018 Zuckerberg’s response to Congress was that Facebook said, “How exactly how [Chinese] The government wants to apply laws and regulations to the contents. “

Meta added that Zuckerberg made an accurate testimony to the BBC and did not operate the service in China.

According to Wynn -williams, most Facebook executives did not allow their children in Facebook. “They have a screen ban. They will definitely not be able to use the product.”

But she says 2017 Report It was true that the company used the algorithm to aim and classify the vulnerable teenagers.

“The algorithm can be inferred that they are worthless or unhappy,” she claimed.

She argues that a company that owns Instagram and WhatsApp can tell a teenage girl to identify the selfie on the platform and to inform the beauty company that it is a good moment for children with advertisements.

Wynn-williams said she thought “hurt.”

“They said: ‘The business side thinks this is what we need to do. We have this amazing product. We can get young people. This is a very important advertising category.”

Meta told the BBC that this is a lie. It has never provided tools for people based on emotional state, and a previous study is to help people understand how to express themselves on Facebook without a goal for advertising.

Overall, Wynn-williams say that the company was not enough to solve the safety of young people on social media.

“This is one of the most valuable companies in the world. They can invest in it, prioritize it, and do more to solve it.”

Facebook said it was transparent about advertising targets. I shared an update on how to approach Creating an advertising experience for the age of teenagers.

He also said he introduced a “teenage account” for tens of millions of young people who were protected. My parents also said they are providing more directors to the use of teenags.

Meta said that a 45 -year -old boy was dismissed as “toxic behavior” after a 45 -year -old boy was “misunderstood and unfounded harassment.”

But Wynn -williams told the BBC that she lost her after complaining about inappropriate opinions, one of the bosses of Joel Kaplan, the chief global business officer of Meta.

Meta said she was paid by the “opposite book activist” and she was not an internal accuser.

“The state of accuser is not a dissatisfied activist who tries to sell books, but protects communication with the government.”

Regarding Wynn-williams’s book, META confirmed in the US that “legal measures were taken to stop defamation and additional distribution of unsupported information.”

To counter this, Wynn-williams’ legal representative said: “Meta made a lot of false and consistent statements about Sarah after the news of her memoirs … META’s statement is trying to mislead the public, but the book speaks of himself.”

We asked her why she was talking now. She said that the meta wants to change because the meta “affects the influence of everyday life.” And we must ensure that “to get a future that we deserve.”

“We are at the moment when we have a lot of consequences for us as technology and political leaders gather together to combine power.

“I think it’s really important to understand it and see all engineers that affect the best government.”