Ex-Facebook exec testifies to senators | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Ex-Facebook exec testifies to senatorsFormer Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the social media company of undermining national security and briefing China on U.S. artificial intelligence efforts in order to grow its business there.Meta used a "campaign of threats and intimidation" to silence the former executive, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., during the hearing.Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now Meta, from 2011 until she was fired in 2017."Throughout those seven years, I saw Meta executives repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values. They did these things in secret to win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion dollar business in China," she said in her prepared remarks.Wynn-Williams also said Meta deleted the Facebook account of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S., bowing to pressure from China to do so.She said Meta "ignored warn...