Former Senior Executive Director of Facebook, the BBC said that the gigant of social media did “Hand in Gloves” with the Chinese Government in potential ways to enable Beijing to censor and control content in China.

Sarah Wynn -williams – former director of global public policy – says that in return to obtain access to the Chinese market of hundreds of millions of users, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was considering accepting hiding the posts that became viral, until Chinese authorities could check them.

Mrs. Williams – who claims the claims in a new book – also appealed to the Basin to the US market regulator, the Securities Council (SEC), claiming that they are the target of investors. BBC examined the lawsuit.

Facebook’s home company Meta says Mrs. Wynn-Williams was a job in 2017 “for poor effect”.

It is “without a secret we used to be interested in” operating services in China, he adds. “In the end, we decided not to go through the ideas we explored.”

Meta sent us to Marko Zuckerberg’s comments from 2019, when he said, “We would never be able to agree on what we should do there and they [China] Never let us in. “

Facebook also used algorithms to see when young teenagers felt vulnerable as part of a research focused on advertisers, according to Ms. Wynn-Williams.

Former New Zealand diplomat, she joined Facebook in 2011 and says she watched the company grow from the “seat in the first place”.

Now she wants to show some of the “decisions and moral compromises” she says she continued when she was there. It is a critical moment, he adds, as “many people I worked with … to be central” in the introduction of AI.

In her memoir, carefree people, Mrs. Wynn-Williams paints a picture of what she claims she worked on on a Facebook senior team.

Mr. Zuckerberg, he says, did not stand up before noon, loved Karaoke and did not like to be beaten at the plates on the board, such as risk. “I didn’t realize you should let him win. I was a little naive,” she told us.

However, Mrs. Wynn-Williams says her allegations are about a close relationship with the company with China at that time Facebook decision-making.

“China is a white whale Mark Zuckerberg,” which means a goal that obsessively followed, says Ms. Wynn-Williams.

The country is the world’s largest social media market, but Facebook access is still blocked, with similar X and YouTube.

“It’s one piece on a game on a board that didn’t win,” she says.

Mrs. Wynn-Williams claims that in the mid-2010s, as part of a negotiations with the Chinese government, Facebook considered that he had enabled a future approach to user data from Chinese citizens.

“He worked in a glove with a Chinese Communist Party, building a censorship tool … Basically working on the development of antithesis of many principles that support Facebook,” she told the BBC.

Mrs. Wynn-Williams says that governments often ask for explanations that the aspects of Facebook software worked, but were told they were owned information.

“But when the Chinese came, the curtain was pulled back,” she says.

“The engineers were performed. They were walking through each aspect, and Facebook ensured that these Chinese officials were sufficiently confirmed that they could not only learn about these products, but tested Facebook on the censorship version of these products they were building.”

The target was BBC that such claims about China were “widely reported” at the time.

In his complaint with the SEC, Mrs. Wynn-Williams also states that Mr. Zuckerberg and other Meta executives made “wrong statements … in response to inquiries in Congress” about China.

One answer given by Mr. Zuckerberg Congress 2018 said Facebook was unable to know exactly how [Chinese] The government would seek to apply its laws and content regulations “

The target said the BBC that Mr. Zuckerberg had given an accurate testimony, adding that he did not do services in China.

Most Facebook executives did not allow their own children on Facebook – according to Mrs. Wynn -williams. “They had a screen ban. They would certainly not let them use the product.”

And yet he says 2017 reports – If the company used algorithms to target and categorize vulnerable teenagers – they were true.

“The algorithm could have concluded that they felt worthless or unhappy,” she claims.

Company – which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp – she could, she claims, identify when she deleted a selfie on her platforms and then informed the cosmetic company to be a good time to target a child with an ad.

Mrs. Wynn-Williams says she “felt sick” for thought and tried to push herself, “even though I knew it was in vain.”

“They said,” The business side thinks this is exactly what we should do. We have this amazing product, we can get young people, which is a really important advertising segment. “

The Meta said the BBC that it was false – he never offered tools to target people based on their emotional state – and that a study that had previously had been to help retailers to understand how people expressed themselves on Facebook rather than target ads.

Generally, Mrs. Wynn-Williams says that the company has not done enough to solve the problem of youth safety on social networks.

“This is one of the most respected companies in the world. They could invest in it and do it a real priority and make more to fix it.”

Facebook said it was transparent in aiming for ads and has shared updates regarding his approach Creating advertising experiences suitable for teenagers.

He also said that he had introduced “teenage accounts” for tens of millions of young people with built -in protection. He also said that he gave parents a greater control of their teenage use of the application.

In addition to bad performance, the target says that the 45-year-old was also discharged because of “toxic behavior” after making “misconceptions and unfounded allegations of harassment.”

But Mrs. Wynn -williams said to the BBC that she had been released after complaining about the inappropriate comments of one of her bosses -Joel Kaplan, who is now the main metal officer for Meta.

The target told us that she was paid for “activists against Facebook” and that she was not a whistleblower.

“The status of a whistle protects communication to the Government, not dissatisfied activists trying to sell books,” it said.

As for Mrs. Wynn-Williams’s book, Meta confirmed to BBC that he had initiated legal procedure in the US to “stop the further distribution of slander and untrue.”

In order to counteract this, legal representative Mrs. Wynn-Williams said: “The target has made a series of false and inconsistent statements about Sarah, because the news of her memoir has spoiled … While the target of statements is trying to seduce the public, the book speaks for themselves”

We asked her why she was talking now. She said she wanted the target to change because it “affects so much of our daily life” and we must ensure “to get the future we deserve.”

“We are at the moment when technological and political leaders are gathering and as they combine strength, there are many consequences for all of us.

“I think it’s really important to understand it and understand that you are watching all these engineers affecting the highest level of government.”