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Mark Zuckerberg helped China develop censorship tools, hid CCP ties from Congress, ex-employee’s memoir alleges


Zuckerberg is a “careless” executive who sought to convince China to let his company to operate on the mainland by helping it bolster its AI, according to a new memoir.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a “careless” executive who sought to convince China to let his company operate on the mainland by helping it develop censorship tools and bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities — all while concealing those efforts from Congress, according to a new memoir. Wynn-Williams “takes readers inside Meta’s board rooms, private jets, and meetings with heads of state, revealing the appetites, excesses, blind spots, and priorities of executives Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Joel Kaplan.” Joel Kaplan, Meta’s vice president of global public policy, is also described in the book as “callously indifferent.” Getty Images“It’s one of the reasons we don’t operate Facebook, Instagram or our other services in China,” Zuckerberg said in the 2019 speech.

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