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We wrote about the steps that must be taken to protect whistleblowers should someone like Hegseth be confirmed back in December, and it still rings very true today.... thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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As hearing ends, Wynn-Williams says it âmay be the last time Iâm allowed to speakâ due to recent gag order. She has a lot of Qs for Zuck but, he's "proven time & time again that you cannot believe his answers... He's lied to members of Congress, he's lied to employees, and heâs lied to Americans."
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She says Zuck may have reinvented himself as a big freedom of speech advocate, but wonders, "if he is such a fan of freedom of speech, why is he trying to silence me?"
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Wynn-Williams says she tried to convince a business leader at the company to stop emotionally targeting teens. His response was: "We've got the most valuable segment of the population. Advertisers really want to reach 13-17 year-olds. We have them. We should be trumpeting it from the rooftops."
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She also says Meta is threatening to hold her accountable for $50k for every disparaging comment she makes about themâeven if itâs true.
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Wynn-Williams said she has had some "very⌠aggressive threats from this company" and that "the last four weeks has been very difficult."
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Wynn-Williams: "Meta is very quick to say, 'donât do anything that can hurt us because youâll let China win.'... And the whole time, the company that has done the most to help China gain a technological advantage is Meta."
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W-W describes tech executives w/screen bans in their homes, whose own children arenât allowed to use FB or Instagram.
âThese executivesâthey know. They know the harm this product does. They donât allow their own teenagers to use the products that Meta develops. The hypocrisy is at every level.â
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W-W says Meta let advertisers know when 13-17 y-os were feeling depressed saying, this is a good time to try to serve them an ad. "If a 13-year-old girl would delete a selfie that was considered a good time to try to sell her a beauty product. This was taken as a signal and shared with advertisers."
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Wynn-Williams: "The greatest trick Mark Zuckerberg ever pulled was wrapping the American flag around himself, calling himself a patriot, and saying he didnât offer services in China while he spent the past decade building an $18 billion business there."
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Wynn-Williams says Facebook regularly briefed members of the Chinese Communist Party, over a period of YEARS, and exchanged information with themâproviding briefings on cutting edge technology like facial recognition.
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Wynn-Williams: Facebook agreed to grant the Chinese government access to Chinese user dataâwhich means that American user data was also compromised.
Sen. Hawley: âThis is exactly contrary to what Facebook has reported for years, all for profits in China.â
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Please tell your friend about Psst.org if anyone has information to bring forward - we help people stay safe as they do so. He can get a pro bono legal consult at Psst.org/safe.
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We're proud of the work we did to help bring this story to light. Check out Amber's full account of the story behind the story here: psstpsst.substack.com/p/that-new-y...
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And now, more than a year after *that,* the New Yorkerâs blockbuster piece is out. In addition to telling part of Davidson's story, it talks possible "fake brides," and all other manners of sketchy corporate behavior. You can read that story here. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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As they went live with their first-person account, journalists finally started paying attention. 8 years after Davidson, Elley and LaFera first tried to go public, the NY Post published a piece on their allegations. nypost.com/2023/07/19/t... Then Forbes did, too. Inc. followed suit soon after.
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Amber started working with them on an essay about everything the three women had witnessedâthe alleged fraud, the corruption, the toxic environment surrounding it all. We ultimately published that essay here: psst.org/blog/behind-...