HELLFIRE https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/meta_senate_china/ Facebook’s former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get the social network into China - including, she alleged, offering up Americans’ data. Speaking to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism Wednesday, Sarah Wynn-Williams alleged Meta misled the public about its operations in China and was so eager to access the nation’s 1.4 billion citizens that its corporate leadership agreed to provide the Chinese Communist Party with access to user data, including that of Americans. “Facebook’s secret mission to get into China was called ‘Project Aldrin’ and was restricted to need-to-know staff. There was no bridge too far. Meta built a physical pipeline connecting the United States and China,” she told [PDF] senators in written testimony. … Meta criticized her testimony. “Sarah Wynn-Williams’ testimony is divorced from reality and riddled with false claims,” Meta spokesperson Ryan Daniels told The Register, before offering the following view: While Mark Zuckerberg himself was public about our interest in offering our services in China and details were widely reported beginning over a decade ago, the fact is this: We do not operate our services in China today. … Regards
Rook To be fair, Sarah Wynn-Williams did just write a book (Careless People) about her time there. That said, I don’t doubt that Meta or any big corporation would share data to get into big markets. Money is the most important thing to them, after all.