Facebook “worked a hand in gloves” with China, claims ex-mode

The former senior leader of Facebook told the BBC how the giant of the social media “Hand in Gloves” worked with the Chinese government on potential methods of resolution of Beijing to censor and control the content in China.

Sarah Wein -Uiliams is a former global director of state policy, – says in return for accessing hundreds of millions of users, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, considered the consent to conceal the messages that go viral until they can be checked by the Chinese authorities.

Ms Williams – claiming a new book – also filed a complaint against human rights defenders to the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which claims that meta -investors. BBC considered the complaint.

Facebook Mother’s Facebook, says Mrs. Wein-Uiliams, employed in 2017 “for poor performance”.

This is “no secret, we were once interested” in operating services in China, adds. “We eventually decided not to worry the ideas we studied.”

Meta has sent us to Mark Zuckerberg’s comments since 2019 when he said, “We could never agree that we needed work and they (China) never let us.”

Facebook also used algorithms to notice when young teenagers felt vulnerable in the research aimed at advertisers, says Ms Wein-Williams.

Former New Zealand diplomat, she joined Facebook in 2011 and says she watched the company growing out of the “first row”.

Now she wants to show some “making decisions and moral compromises”, which, she said, continued when she was there. This is a critical moment, she adds, because “many people I have worked … will be the main” for the introduction of the II.

In memoirs, careless people, Ms Wein-Williams draws a picture that she claims she worked on the older team Facebook.

Mr. Zuckerberg, she said, did not get up until noon, loved karaoke and did not want him to be beaten on board games, such as risk. “I didn’t understand what you had to let him win. I was a little naive,” she told us.

However, Mrs. Wein-Williams says her allegations of close communication with China give an idea of ​​making decisions on Facebook at the time.

“China’s White Keith Mark Zuckerberg”, which means the goal he pursued, says Ms Wein-Williams.

The country is the world’s largest social media market, but Facebook access remains located there as well as similar X and YouTube.

“This is one piece in a board game he didn’t win,” she says.

Ms Wein-Williams claims that in the mid-2010s, as part of his negotiations with the Chinese Facebook government, he considered the possibility of allowing him to access Chinese users’ data in the future.

“He worked in gloves with the Communist Party of China, creating a censorship tool … He mainly worked on developing a peculiar antithesis of many principles that underpin Facebook,” she said the BBC.

Ms Wein-Williams says governments often asked in explanations how Facebook’s aspects work, but said it was their own information.

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

“The engineers were brought out. They were passing on each aspect, and Facebook made sure that these Chinese officials were quite elevated, that they could not only learn about these products, but also experience Facebook for the censorship of these products they build.”

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

In her SEC’s complaint, Ms Wein-Williams also claims that Mr. Zuckerberg and other meta-heads made “misleading … in response to Congress requests” about China.

One answer gave by Mr. Zuckerberg to Congress in 2018 said Facebook “is unable to know exactly how (Chinese) government seeks to apply its laws and content rules”

Meta said BBC that Mr. Zuckerberg gave accurate testimony, adding that there was no service in China.

Most Facebook executives did not allow their own children on Facebook – according to Ms Wein -Uiliams. “They had bans on the screen. They would definitely not allow them to use the product.”

And yet she says Reports from 2017 – What the company used algorithms for the purpose and classification of vulnerable teenagers – was true.

“The algorithm can conclude that they feel insignificant and unhappy,” she says.

The company – which also belongs to Instagram and WhatsApp – could, she claims to identify when a teenage girl removed selfies on her platforms, and then inform the beauty companies that would be a good moment to aim for a child with advertising.

Ms Wein-Williams says she “felt bad” at thought and tried to push away, “though I knew it was useless.”

“They said, ‘Business believes that’s exactly what we should do. We have this amazing product, we can get young people, which is a truly important advertising segment. “

Meta said the BBC that it was false – it never offered tools to orient people based on their emotional state – and that the study it used to help marketers to understand how people express themselves on Facebook rather than focus on advertising.

Overall, Ms Wein-Williams says the company did not make enough to resolve the security of young people on social media.

“This is one of the most valuable companies in the world. They can invest in this and make it a true priority and do more to fix it.”

Facebook said it is transparent about targeting on advertising and shared updates regarding its approach Creating an advertisement experience for adolescents that correspond to age.

It also states that he presented “teenage accounts” for tens of millions of young people with built -in protection. It also said that giving parents more supervision the use of adolescents app.

Like the bad job, meta says that the 45-year-old guy was also fired for “toxic behavior” after she made “misleading and unjustified charges.”

But Mrs. Wein -Uiliams told the BBC that she had been released after she complained about the inadequate comments of one of her bosses – Joel Caplan, who is now the main employee of Meta World Affairs.

The meta told us that she was paid “activists against books” and she was not a violator.

“The status of the offender defends a connection with the government, not dissatisfied with activists who are trying to sell books,” the statement said.

As for the book, Ms. War-Williams, Meta confirmed the BBC that she had launched legal actions in the US to “stop further distribution of defamatory and false information.”

In order to withstand this, Ms Wein-Uiliams said, “Meta has made a number of false and inconsistent statements about Sarah, as the news about her memoirs broke through … While the statements are meticiously trying to mislead society, the book speaks of himself”

We asked her why she was now performing. She said she wanted the meta to change, because “it affects so much our daily life” and we need to provide “we will get the future we deserve.”

“At this point, when technological and political leaders come together and when they unite forces, it has many consequences for all of us.

“I think it’s really important to understand this, and to understand what you look at all these engineers affecting the highest level of driving.”