Zuckerberg secretly developed a "Facebook Hong Kong and Taiwan speech censorship" tool for China, selling user privacy? Shocking revelations from former Meta executives.

Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testified before Congress last week, accusing Meta founder Zuckerberg of personally leading a program to curry favor with Beijing in order to enter the Chinese market and developing censorship tools that have been activated in Taiwan and Hong Kong. (Synopsis: The metaverse is not playing? HTC sells XR business to Google for $250 million, Wang Xuehong: VIVE brand remains unchanged) (Background supplement: Comment: AI Agent complements the important puzzle of the metaverse, GameFi tokenization killer) Sarah Wynn-Williams, former global policy director at Meta, the parent company of social giant Facebook, threw a shock bomb at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week in which she charged Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg personally led a vast program to curry favor with the Chinese government and devise censorship mechanisms for users in Taiwan and Hong Kong, even if it meant sacrificing American values and national security. Williams details how Meta's top brass actively sought to build relations with the Chinese Communist Party for the sake of potentially huge profits. She pointed out that although Meta's main social platforms Facebook and Instagram have been blocked in China for a long time, Meta has never given up entering this market with a huge demographic dividend. In fact, she said that Meta has launched multiple apps in China and sells Oculus VR headsets, and its business in China is said to be a staggering $18.3 billion (about NT$600 billion). When asked by a senator why Meta is so obsessed with the Chinese market, Williams bluntly replied: "It's for huge profits..." Zuckerberg personally leads? The most striking part of Williams' testimony was the accusation that Zuckerberg himself was deeply involved in interactions with Chinese authorities. She said Mr. Zuckerberg had flown to Beijing several times in person to meet with senior officials, including Lu Wei, then director of China's Cyberspace Administration of China. These interactions took place for at least four years before Zuckerberg testified before Congress in 2018. Williams also accused Zuckerberg of blatant lying during a 2018 congressional hearing. Asked at the time whether he would cooperate with the Chinese government's censorship and surveillance requests and whether he would develop censorship tools for access to the Chinese market, he said that because Facebook has been blocked by China since 2009, it is "impossible to know exactly how the Chinese government will apply its laws and regulations to our content." However, Winn Williams' testimony shows that Zuckerberg was not only aware of the requirements, but even actively cooperated. In a show of sincerity, Zuckerberg even tried hard to learn Chinese and publicly tried to bring Chinese leaders closer. These actions, in Williams' view, are all efforts by Meta to win Beijing's favor and eventually build a large business in China. Tailor-made censorship tools for the CCP, which has been enabled in Taiwan and Hong Kong Williams also further revealed that Meta succumbed to direct pressure from the CCP and tailored a set of content moderation tools for it. At the heart of the tool, posts on the platform are automatically submitted to so-called "editors-in-chief" for review if they are viewed more than 10,000 times. Even more shockingly, Williams confirmed that the censorship tool has not only been developed, but "has been activated in Hong Kong and Taiwan." She revealed that Chinese officials had personally tested the tool and suggested changes, such as "This must be changed", "We need this feature" or "We need to know that you can capture and filter images"... According to her, this "editor-in-chief" role has enormous power, not only to review high-traffic posts, but even to decide to shut down or adjust services to specific regions or at sensitive times. If true, this allegation would mean that Meta is directly involved in censorship and even helps the Chinese government silence voices on specific regions or issues, especially in Hong Kong and Taiwan, two relatively free markets for Meta. In addition, Williams confirmed that Meta is willing to submit the information of Hong Kong users to the Chinese government when Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators face a crackdown in Beijing. From a technical point of view, if Meta shares Chinese user data with the Chinese government, it cannot avoid providing China with US user data that has interacted with these Chinese users indirectly, raising serious data privacy and national security concerns. Meta denies it outright, the U.S. vows to investigate Meta spokesman Ryan Daniels responded quickly to Williams' multiple allegations, refuting his testimony in its entirety, saying it was "inconsistent with the facts and full of false allegations." Daniels told the BBC that Zuckerberg had indeed publicly expressed interest in providing services in China, but that Meta "does not currently operate in China". However, the BBC report also pointed out that Facebook does earn advertising revenue from the Chinese market, which makes Meta's denial pale in comparison. Williams' testimony also caused an uproar in the U.S. Congress. Republican Senator Josh Hawley, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, who presided over the hearing, expressed extreme outrage at the allegations and promised to lead a "full investigation" into the matter. Williams publishes book revealing details and lies about Zuckerberg's currying favor with the CCP Sarah Wynn-Williams has worked at Facebook for seven years since 2011. Her recently published memoir, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, details of what she saw on Meta, including details of Zuckerberg's courtship with the CCP and lies during congressional testimony. After its publication, the book topped the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. However, the day after her book was published, Meta successfully applied for an interim court judgment temporarily prohibiting her from promoting the book. At the hearing, she reluctantly said: "This may be the last time I will be allowed to speak." Williams' testimony, if verified, will not only damage Meta's corporate image, but also trigger stricter U.S. government regulations and have a profound impact on its global business strategy, particularly in Asia. Future congressional findings and how Meta responds to this crisis will be the focus of attention. Related reports Nintendo Switch2 officially unveiled, the new generation or the introduction of metaverse chain games, NFTs and cold wallets? Game Demo" Maple Valley Metaverse MapleStory N One sentence suggestion: the sooner you play, the more you earn SONY rumors want to acquire Kadokawa Group, Elden Law Ring is expected to enter the meta-universe? "Zuckerberg secretly creates a "Facebook Taiwan and Hong Kong censorship" tool for China, selling user privacy? Former Meta executives shocked the news〉This article was first published in BlockTempo's "Dynamic Trend - The Most Influential Blockchain News Media".