Washington Post [no paywall]: “Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow executives were willing to “betray American values” to secure a foothold in China. A former global policy director at Meta told a Senate committee Wednesday that top executives at the social media giant were willing to undermine national security and “betray American values” to build a censored version of Facebook for the Chinese market. Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team that handled China policy issues and has since written a best-selling book that Meta has sought to prevent her from promoting, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Meta — then called Facebook — developed a censorship system in 2015 that would have allowed the Chinese Communist Party to oversee social media content and squash dissenting opinions Lawmakers from both parties and Wynn-Williams argued during the hearing that any past willingness by the company to crack down on speech on behalf of the Chinese government would stand in contrast to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest rhetoric criticizing China and touting the importance of free speech. “If he is such a fan of freedom [of] speech, why is he trying to silence me?” Wynn-Williams said. “The other thing is that this is a man who wears many different costumes. When I was there, he wanted the president of China to name his first child. He was learning Mandarin. He was censoring to his heart’s content.”…

Wynn-Williams was speaking publicly for the first time since an emergency arbiter sided with Meta this past month and banned her from promoting her 400-page memoir, “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.” The book, which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, chronicles the six years Wynn-Williams spent working with top Meta executives, including Zuckerberg, former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and global affairs head Joel Kaplan, as they attempted to woo world leaders and address public policy issues…”