Testimony of Sarah Wynn-Williams

Sarah Wynn-Williams, who previously served as Facebook’s head of global public policy, is set to testify before Congress on Wednesday. In her testimony, she plans to outline serious allegations against Meta executives, claiming they facilitated advancements in artificial intelligence capabilities for China, which could potentially undermine US national security.

Wynn-Williams held her position at Facebook from 2011 until 2017 and filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission in March. Meta has stated that she was terminated for poor performance eight years ago. In conjunction with her whistleblower complaint, she also released a memoir titled Careless People, where she claims to detail issues related to the company’s culture and its dealings with China. A spokesperson for Meta has previously labeled her book as “false and defamatory,” claiming it should not have been published.

Following the memoir’s release, Meta succeeded in securing an emergency arbitration ruling that temporarily restrained Wynn-Williams and her publisher from promoting the book or making harmful statements about the company. Despite this, the book managed to reach No. 1 on bestseller lists.

Wynn-Williams’s draft testimony, which has been reviewed by Business Insider, includes accusations that Meta developed a covert partnership with China, offering user data to the Chinese Communist Party and creating a “physical pipeline” linking the US to China. During the presidency of Donald Trump, his administration halted a collaboration between Google and Facebook aimed at deploying an 8,000-mile broadband cable connecting the US with Hong Kong.