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Ex-Facebook employee to tell Congress the company undermined U.S. national security


Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director of global public policy at Facebook, is set to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday. Meta has disputed her account.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook employee who alleged misconduct and sexual harassment at the company in a memoir published last month, will testify before Congress on Wednesday that Meta executives undermined U.S. national security and briefed Chinese officials on emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. In her introductory statement, obtained by NBC News, Wynn-Williams will tell the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism that Meta executives “lied about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress, and the American public.” Wynn-Williams appears to be referencing a report from Reuters published in November that said researchers linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army said that Meta’s Llama was used to build an AI tool for potential military use.

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