{"id":1808,"date":"2025-04-09T01:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2025-04-09T01:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T17:51:18","slug":"author-of-explosive-meta-memoir-to-star-at-us-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/author-of-explosive-meta-memoir-to-star-at-us-senate-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Author of explosive Meta memoir to star at US Senate hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former global policy director Sarah Wynn-Williams has alleged the company explored the possibility of breaking into the lucrative Chinese market by appeasing Beijing’s government censors.<\/p>\n

Meta communications director Andy Stone told AFP the company “ultimately decided not to go through with the ideas we’d explored.”<\/p>\n

The company’s family of apps is currently blocked in China.<\/p>\n

Wynn-Williams’s testimony at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing will focus on Meta’s foreign relations moves and on what its executives have previously told Congress.<\/p>\n

Of particular interest at Wednesday’s hearing, headed by Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, is whether Wynn-Williams contradicts what Meta co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has stated under oath during past congressional hearings.<\/p>\n

Wynn-Williams’s book, “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism,” was released on March 11 and became a hot seller despite Meta winning an arbitration court order barring the author from promoting the work or making derogatory statements about the company.<\/p>\n

Her book recounts working at the tech titan from 2011 to 2017 and includes claims of sexual harassment by longtime company executive Joel Kaplan, a prominent Republican and ally of President Donald Trump who took over as head of Meta’s global affairs team this year.<\/p>\n

Meta took the matter to arbitration, contending the book violates a non-disparagement contract signed by Wynn-Williams when she worked with the company’s global affairs team.<\/p>\n

Stone said Wynn-Williams was “fired for poor performance and toxic behavior,” having made a series of allegations that the company investigated and found to be unfounded.<\/p>\n

“Careless People” ranks second on a New York Times bestseller list of nonfiction books, with another title highly critical of Meta close behind.<\/p>\n

“The Anxious Generation,” which paints a dark picture of social media’s effect on children, is currently fourth on the Times bestseller list, a year after its release.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2025 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francisco (AFP) \u2013 <\/span> The former Facebook employee behind a scathing book about parent company Meta will testify Wednesday before US senators keen to establish whether the social networking giant ever collaborated with the Chinese government. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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