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Whistleblower reveals Facebook censorship system created to enter China
Last April, Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook global policy director who was fired in 2017, revealed in a complaint filed with the SEC that Facebook sought a...
Wynn-Williams says (via The Washington Post) that some of the concessions Facebook agreed to with local authorities included hosting Chinese and Hong Kong user data on servers in China, making it easier for the government to access the personal information of these citizens. In 2019, Zuckerberg, apparently having given up on the prospect of a Chinese version of Facebook, spoke about the importance of freedom of expression while criticizing China's censorship laws in a speech at Georgetown. This involved the replacement of third-party fact checkers with community notes, removing restrictions on topics such as immigration and gender, and focusing only on high-severity policy violations such as terrorism, child sexual exploitation, drugs, fraud, and scams.
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