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.
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 openly (Bezos who owns WaPo attacks Zuck here) and this piece exists so that Trump might see the headline. I have no doubts that most of the big tech sold or traded all the data that they could confidentially already.
Is that something new? As in, has WaPo not been willing to go after Meta in a similar manner before?
Historically WaPo has been critical of Meta and X but usually they stuck to facts. This is almost made up and exists to exploit Trump’s neurodivergence where it’s likely he’ll see Meta and China in the sentence and act off the headline alone (sadly, this is a reflection of society in general). There are rules to post-truth politics even if truth is not necessary ;)