Meta Is All About Free Speech—Except They Built a Censorship Tool for China

You might remember the video in which Mark Zuckerberg, donned in the outfit of his newly acquired hypebeast persona, ushered in the second Trump administration by declaring that “it’s time to get back to our roots around free expression.” Suddenly, Zuckerberg was a free-speech warrior, which is code for willfully throwing our most vulnerable under the bus to appease conservatives.

Fresh off the heels of that heel turn, the Washington Post just reported that a former high-level Facebook employee filed a complaint with the SEC alleging that Meta bent over backwards to meet the demands of the Chinese government, going as far as to build censorship tools for China in Meta’s endless quest for infinite money.

Sarah Wynn-Williams was, at one point, a global policy director at Facebook. Wynn-Williams alleges that Facebook began courting the Chinese government back in 2014, agreeing to store Chinese users’ data on servers within China, thus making it much easier for the Chinese government to access information about its citizens.

That one doesn’t seem so bad. Here’s where it gets bad: Facebook built a censorship tool specifically for the Chinese market that automatically removed any content containing restricted words.

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