A former employee reveals shocking details in a new memoir.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook executive turned whistleblower, has been ringing up journalists over the past week and detailing how the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, made a desperate but failed attempt in 2015 to bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China. He even developed a censorship system for it to review and was prepared to let it oversee all the platform’s content within the country. His willingness to cede to the Chinese government’s demands might not surprise some people, but the details are worrisome. How can somebody supposedly value free speech while plotting the development of censorship tools for a communist country?
Zuckerberg’s ‘White Whale’
Between 2011 and 2017, Wynn-Williams was Facebook’s global public policy…
