In serious complaints the former executive is proceeding FacebookSarah Win-Guliams accusing META executives of working with Beij USA.
Today’s hearing and the Revelations of Sarah Win-Juliamswho worked on Facebook from the 2011 to 2017they raise serious questions about whether Meta worked underground, as opposed to the public positions of its leadership, enhancing its geopolitical interests China at the expense of the US.
Sarah Win-Guliams is expected to submit today, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, before the US Senate Subcommittee, complaining that Meta undermined the national security of the United States to serve its business interests in China.
Win-Juliams argues that Meta executives have informed Chinese officials about emerging technologies such as artificial intelligenceand that the company attempted to access Chinese market through a plan named Project Aldrin, which even included cooperation in the development of censorship software.
According to the draft of her deposit, which secured NBC NewsWin-Juliams is expected to declare: “I saw META executives repeatedly undermine US national security and betraying US values. They made it secret to win Beijing’s favor and create a $ 18 billion business in China. “
She complains that Meta officials were systematically lying on workers, shareholders, Congress and the American people about their cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party.
Meta rejected the complaints, with her spokesman Andy Stone to characterize Win-Juliams’ forthcoming deposition “cut off from reality” and “Full of false claims”.
“Mark Zuckerberg had spoken publicly about our interest in active in China, but the truth is that today none of our services in that country operate,” Meta said.
The company claims that Win-Juliams was fired for reasons of performance in 2017 and that her complaints about sexual harassment against former boss Joel Kaplan were rejected after internal investigation.
Win-Juliams is expected to receive questions about both Meta’s past and her future plans, including her relationship with China and artificial intelligence.
According to Win-Juliams’ deposition, Meta even built US -China Submarine Connection Cable in collaboration with Googlewhich was intended to facilitate data transfer. This work was abandoned in 2020, following Congress reactions.
“Facebook’s secret plan was called Aldrin Project” He is expected to deposit, among other things.
“There was no obstacle that could not be overcome. Meta built a natural pipeline connecting the United States with China. Meta executives ignored warnings that this pipeline could be a “back door” for the Chinese Communist Party, enabling him to steal personal data and personal messages of American citizens. The only reason China does not today have access to American users’ data through the pipeline is because Congress intervened. “
The “natural pipeline” he refers to is the plan announced in 2016 Facebook and Google for the construction of an underwater internet cable that would connect Hong Kong with Los Angeles. The part of the project involving Hong Kong was abandoned in 2020.
“These updates were focused on critical emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence,” he is expected to say. “The goal was to help China overcome US companies. One can draw a straight line from these updates to recent revelations that China is developing military models of artificial intelligence based on Meta’s Llama model. Meta’s internal documents describe how they “offered” China the advantage of increasing its global influence and promote the so -called China Dream».
Her testimony linked these updates to the recent revelation that China’s popular liberation army used META’s artificial intelligence model to develop military applications – information published by Reuters.
A Meta spokesman had then stated that any use of Llama by the Chinese army violates the company’s policies.
In her book, Win-Juliams notes that Facebook has expanded to China, despite the serious concerns that had been raised, insisting on implementing his plans.
As he writes, Mark Zuckerberg had expressed his willingness to reintegrate the company in the Chinese market since 2014, with the aim of increasing the users base. However, by 2019 he had recognized that the effort was virtually deadlocked, as negotiations on Meta’s operational presence in China proved to be extremely difficult.
The company eventually never released any public application in the country.
Mark Zuckerberg himself, in his 2019 speech, had admitted that Meta “never managed to agree with Beijing”, adding that he had abandoned his penetration efforts in China because there could be no common ground for freedom of speech.
Information from NBC News