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Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new whistleblower complaint from a former global policy director at the company.
The complaint by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team handling China policy, alleges that the social media giant so desperately wanted to enter the lucrative China market that it was willing to allow the ruling party to oversee all social media content appearing in the country and quash dissenting opinions.
lily33@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
So, essentially, they wanted to enter the Chinese market so much that they were even willing to comply with local rules and regulations!
This is such a big secret, we really needed a whistleblower to tell us that!
misk@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Yeah, the article falls flat immediately once you look into the details but what’s interesting is that it looks like American oligarchs are starting to attack each other and this piece exists so that Trump might see the headline. I have no doubts that most of the big tech sold all the data that they could confidentially already.
lily33@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Is that something new? As in, has WaPo not been willing to go after Meta in a similar manner before?
azolus@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
EU: So you complx with regulations if we threaten you with market lock-out? 👀