Mark Zuckerberg helped China develop censorship tools, hid CCP ties from Congress, ex-employees memoir alleges

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a “careless” executive who sought to convince China to let his company operate on the mainland by helping it develop censorship tools and bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities — all while concealing those efforts from Congress, according to a new memoir.Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta employee who worked at Facebook for seven years before the social media giant rebranded as Meta, is the author of “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.”The book detailed an alleged “rotten company culture” that included “shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards” under Zuckerberg and ex-No.2 Sheryl Sandberg, who were described as “callously indifferent to the price others would pay for their own enrichment.”Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Facebook, left the company in 2018.“We haven’t seen the book, but this former employee was terminated in 2017 and an investigation at that time found she made false claims,” a Meta spokesperson told The Post.“As Mark himself said in a televised address in 2019, ‘[He] wanted our services in China … and worked hard to make this happen.

But we could never come to agreement on what it would take for us to operate there.’ That is why we don’t operate our services in China today,” the Meta spokesperson added.Described by publisher Flatiron Books as “a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade,” the memoir claims to shed light on the company’s leadership and culture.The book is also being published by Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom, whose website calls the book “an explosive dispatch from someone who had a front-row seat to the inner workings of one of the most influential companies on the planet.”Wynn-Williams “takes readers inside Meta’s board rooms, private jets, and meetings with heads of state, revealing the appetites, excesses, bl...