A former Facebook executive says parent company Meta attempted to team up with China on censorship for profit, according to a report in the Washington Post.
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00:00A former Facebook executive claims its parent company, Meta, had attempted to team up with
00:05China on censorship for profit.
00:09Facebook's former public policy director, Sarah Wynne Williams, told BBC the social
00:13media giant worked on ways to censor content in return for access to China's market.
00:19She also accuses CEO Mark Zuckerberg of working closely with Chinese authorities to create
00:24a censorship system in 2015 and of agreeing to target the account of a Chinese dissident.
00:30She's filed a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
00:35saying the company misled investors.
00:38Meta's Instagram and Facebook are banned in China.