Source; Daily News
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Meta’s foreign relations on April 9
Josh Hawley: In 2017, the Chinese dissident Guo Wengui (Miles Guo) suddenly had his Facebook profile shut down. Now, Facebook at first said that this was a temporary glitch. Was that true to your knowledge?
Sarah Wynn-Williams: No, centrally.
Josh Hawley: In fact, Facebook shut down this dissident's page. This dissident, as you pointed out a moment ago, was living on American soil at the time. Facebook shut down that page based on pressure from the Chinese Communist Party. Is that accurate?
Sarah Wynn-Williams: That's accurate.
Josh Hawley: So here we have evidence of high-level contacts between Chinese Communist Party officials and Facebook, asking for this dissident's page to be taken down. Facebook acknowledging this pressure, saying we need to do something if we want to get the party's cooperation, the government's cooperation. And what happened next?
Sarah Wynn-Williams: Well, Senator Hawley, one thing the Chinese Communist Party and Mark Zuckerberg share is that they want to silence their critics. I can say that from a personal experience. So I think they came to the right man. This led to a series of events where eventually this man on American soil was kicked off the platform.
Josh Hawley: So in April of 2017, following these conversations, Facebook takes down the profile, bans it, of Mr. Guo. Then in September, they make that ban permanent.
Josh Hawley: Senator Rubio asked him directly, was there any pressure from the Chinese government to block his account? Was there any pressure to block his account? The General Counsel, Mr. Stretch, no, Senator. We reviewed a report on that account and analyzed it through regular channels, using regular procedures. Was this truthful testimony, Ms. Williams?
Sarah Wynn-Williams: No, Senator.
Josh Hawley: It's in fact an outright lie, is it not?
Sarah Wynn-Williams: It is, Senator.
Josh Hawley: We just saw the documentation. Facebook received not just a request, Facebook received direct pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and bowed to it and discussed it internally and planned it and then lied about it to Congress.
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