in World News Ex-Facebook Employee Set to Testify on Parent Company’s Relations With China
by Jacob Adams Jacob Adams is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Jacob.
Sen. Josh Hawley has called Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook employee, before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism to testify Wednesday on the company’s relationship with China.
Hawley, R-Mo., told The Daily Signal that he hoped to get answers at the hearing, dubbed “A Time for Truth: Oversight of Meta’s Foreign Relations and Representations to the United States Congress.”
“Give her an opportunity to tell us the truth about what Facebook has really been doing in China. What they’ve really been doing with dissidents, what they’re really doing with censorship, their links to the Chinese Communist Party,” Hawley said.
“It’s explosive, explosive stuff. And frankly, Facebook has lied to Congress about it,” he asserted.
The Missouri senator told The Daily Signal to “stay tuned,” when asked whether the Wednesday hearing was a precursor to calling Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta (the parent company of Facebook), to testify before a Senate committee again.
Hawley is calling Wynn-Williams, who worked for Facebook for about six years and served as director of global public policy at the social media platform, to discuss “allegations that Facebook cooperated with the communist regime in China to build censorship tools, punish dissidents, and make American users’ data available for Chinese use.”