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Zuckerberg has been hauled up in front of Congress several times for a number of issues. He\u2019s manages to slide his way out of contempt charges, primarily due to the protection of the Democrat Party. Recently, the latest problem for him was how the \u201cFact Checkers\u201d he had were caught, repeatedly, flat out censoring and banning people for political reasons. This was something else that Congress was looking into.<\/p>\n
Recently, Zuckerberg announced, after a meeting with President Trump that he was going to close down the fact checkers<\/a> and move to a system similar to the one Elon Musk put into place for TwitterX, Community Notes.<\/p>\n However, something else is now about to detonate in Zuckerberg\u2019s face and this one could actually get him arrested and criminally charged. One of the things that has worried many in congress and the Trump administration is how much the Chinese Communist government has been infiltrating the United States, especially it\u2019s computer systems.<\/p>\n Since Meta and Facebook have access to way to much personal information on people, Congress has asked Zuckerberg and the Meta management about their connections with the Chinese government and security services. (The Ministry of State Security) Zuckerberg and the others all assured Congress and the Administration that everything was fine and that American\u2019s Personally Identifiable Information, (PII), was perfectly safe. However, someone testified to Congress that Zuckerberg and the others flat out lied. Here some of those details from The Hill<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Facebook, which is now called Meta, testified at a Senate hearing Wednesday that she saw Meta executives \u201crepeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values\u201d during her seven-year stint in that job. <\/b><\/p>\n In remarks to a hearing convened by Sen. Josh Hawley <\/a>(R-Mo.), Wynn-Williams alleged Meta executives worked vigorously to \u201cwin favor\u201d with leaders in Beijing to build an $18 billion business in China. <\/strong><\/p>\n One of the problems the United States has is major corporations, desperate to gain access to the billion+ potential customers in China, have been willing to do pretty much whatever the ChiCom government demanded of them. Disney\u2019s Bob Iger is a case in point.<\/p>\n He\u2019s poured billions of dollars into Disney parks in China. The problem is that the Chinese Government can just take those parks and all the IP any time they want. The Disney movies are also not doing well over there either. (That most of the movies suck dead donkey dicks doesn\u2019t help matters)<\/p>\n Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta also wants to get into China in a big way. One of the ways they could do this is to build large data-centers inside China. The issue here is that the Chinese MSS will have access to everything on those servers, and any other servers outside of China. Apparently, Zuckerberg and the Meta Execs were just fine with this.<\/p>\n Wynn-Williams told Hawley\u2019s panel that during her time at Meta, \u201cCompany executives lied about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress and the American public,\u201d according to a copy of her remarks. <\/b><\/p>\n Her most explosive claim is that she witnessed Meta executives decide to provide the Chinese Communist Party with access to user data, including the data of Americans. And she says she has the \u201cdocuments\u201d to back up her accusations.<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m going to say that if this is true, (And frankly, knowing Zuckerberg and Meta\u2019s history, I think it is), then this is going to be very bad for Meta, Facebook and Zuckerberg. I hope that Ms. Wynn-Williams does have the documents to back up her story. I suspect that she does.<\/p>\n Meta has pushed back on Wynn-Williams\u2019s testimony, calling it \u201cdivorced from reality\u201d and \u201criddled with false claims.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cWhile Mark Zuckerberg <\/a>himself was public about our interest in offering our services in China and details were widely reported beginning over a decade ago, the fact is this: we do not operate our services in China today,\u201d Meta spokesperson Ryan\u00a0Daniels said. <\/b><\/p>\n I have some questions of course. Meta\u2019s PR people went on the attack, I don\u2019t see them providing anything to refute Ms. Wynn-Williams assertions.<\/p>\n Meta says it regularly discloses the fact that it generates advertising revenue from advertisers based in China but says that doesn\u2019t mean it operates services in China. It says its services are banned in China. <\/b><\/p>\n I have a question. Just what services are banned? Are we talking about the Facebook and Instagram platforms? WhatsApp? Could you be a bit more specific? As an aside, I used to use WhatsApp before Meta bought it. It was considered a secure communications system. When Meta\/Facebook took it over, they promptly blew huge holes in the security features. I promptly dropped them and told others they should as well.<\/p>\n In any case, I would think that Meta wouldn\u2019t have an issue talking to Congress and refuting Ms. Wynn-Williams assertions. I would think they would jump at the chance to blow her credibility all over the map. However, they went a different route, one that makes me go \u201cHmmm, I wonder.\u201d<\/p>\n Hawley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, said Meta tried \u201cdesperately to prevent\u201d him from holding the hearing. <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cThey have stopped at absolutely nothing to prevent today\u2019s testimony. They have absolutely gone to war to try to prevent it,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have gone scorched earth to prevent her from telling what she knows.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cThey have threatened her with $50,000 in punitive damages every time she mentions Facebook in public \u2026 even if the statements she is making are true,\u201d he said. \u201cFacebook is attempting her total and complete financial ruin. They\u2019re attempting to destroy her personally, they\u2019re attempting to destroy her reputation, and I think the question is, \u2018Why?\u2019\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cWhat is it they are so afraid of?\u201d Hawley asked. \u201cI think that we\u2019ve already got a sense of it. Sarah Wynn-Williams knows the truth about Facebook. That\u2019s what they fear.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n This is not what an innocent company would do. An innocent company would provide data showing that their accuser was wrong, mistake or lying. A guilty party is the one that goes on the attack. They are the ones trying to hide something.<\/p>\n Wynn-Willias told senators that Meta built a \u201cphysical pipeline connecting the United States and China\u201d and executives \u201cignored warnings that this would provide backdoor access to the Chinese Communist Party, allowing them to intercept the personal data and private messages of American citizens.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n She said China does not currently have access to U.S. user data only because Congress \u201cstepped in.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the problems with Facebook is that it\u2019s a giant security hole. They have had problems in the past. They\u2019ve claimed to have fixed holes as they found them, and I suspect they have when it came to actual criminals. As for state agents? I\u2019m not so sure.<\/p>\n Meta disputes that claim as false. <\/b><\/p>\n Of course they do. If they said \u201cOh yeah, we did do that.\u201d it would make an alien anal probe some pleasant.<\/p>\n The pipeline to China mentioned by the whistleblower, the Pacific Light Cable, was never completed. <\/b><\/p>\n The cable, which was first announced in 2016 with support from Facebook, Google and other companies, was envisioned as a high-capacity fiberoptic undersea cable running thousands of miles under the Pacific Ocean, connecting Los Angeles and Hong Kong. <\/b><\/p>\n I would love to know what they were thinking when Meta cooked up this idea. Oh wait, they weren\u2019t. All they saw was a billion Chinese users they could show ads to. Setting up an end point in China is the height of stupidity.<\/p>\n Bloomberg reported in 2020 that Facebook, Google and other companies abandoned their plans to link the U.S. to Hong Kong. They revised their proposal to build the link only as far as Taiwan and the Philippines, according to Bloomberg. <\/b><\/p>\n So the MSS does have access to the data line after all. They just needed to be a bit more subtle about how they connected to it. I seem to recall that the United States did something like this back during the Cold War. There is actually a book about it called Blind Man\u2019s Bluff<\/b><\/a> on the whole story. Somehow, I don\u2019t think that China used a sub and divers to hack into the data line.<\/p>\n Wynn-Williams also told lawmakers that while Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to champion free speech, she witnessed the company work closely with the Chinese Communist Party \u201cto construct and test custom-built censorship tools that silenced and censored critics of the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n She said the company agreed to Beijing\u2019s demand that it delete the Facebook account of a prominent Chinese dissident living on American soil and then \u201clied to Congress\u201d about the incident at a Senate hearing. <\/b><\/p>\n A person familiar with the matter said Wynn-Williams\u2019s testimony was referring to Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. <\/b><\/p>\n I did a quick search on Guo Wengui. The first thing to pop up was the ever so accurate Wikipedia. If you read between the lines, it looks like he may have pissed off the wrong people in the Chinese Government and made tracks out of China. (He is, or was, a Chinese national) According to the article a Facebook page affiliated with him was taken down. Facebook used their famous \u201cViolated community standards\u201d nonsense. Funny how often that has happened over the last few years, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n However, there has always been issues with the accuracy of Zuckerberg\u2019s testimony to various house and senate committees. He\u2019s managed to avoid charges of contempt of congress and perjury in the past, however, if Ms. Wynn-Williams testimony holds up and she \u201cHas the goods\u201d so to speak, Mark Zuckerberg, potentially, is in serious trouble. Here are some of those details from WokeSpy<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing a potential criminal referral following revelations that Facebook was willing to grant the Chinese Communist Party access to the data of Americans. <\/b><\/p>\n Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said the revelations could lead to a criminal referral against Zuckerberg. <\/b><\/p>\n Hawley posted on X: <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cAnd here you have it, straight from a former Facebook employee \u2026 Meta was willing to store data in China & give the Chinese government access to it \u2026 To hell with Americans\u2019 user data and personal information.<\/b><\/p>\n It\u2019s always been profit & power for Meta.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n There is more in the WokeSpy article from Senator Hawley. What is surprising is that it isn\u2019t just the Republicans that are a bit peeved at Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut also weighed in, saying that \u201cAmerican people are going to be pretty outraged that Mark Zuckerberg sold out America with China and that he imperiled our national security.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n Normally, I have absolutely nothing good to say about Blumenthal, however, it does appear that this might just be crossing party lines. One of the problems for Mark Zuckerberg is that he\u2019s managed to piss off both sides. Normally, you will see one political party protecting someone from the other.<\/p>\n Almost all of this, when it happens is due to one party thinking that it\u2019s wrong or unfair or politically motivated by the other party. (Usually its one side doing the job they were bribed to do. What? You think that big money donors throw millions at candidates because they agree with them?) In this case, Facebook, Meta and Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s arrogance, with a dash of humility if it means not being indicted, has finally caught up with him. We shall see if anything comes of it.<\/p>\n Thatisall<\/p>\n ~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good day all. It\u2019s long been known that Mark Zuckerberg doesn\u2019t care much for people\u2019s privacy or rights, especially if it interferes with his goal of making money. His main creation, Facebook, has become globally successful, however, it is also … Continue reading <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n (2<\/strong> votes, average: 5.00<\/strong> out of 5)
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